Chrisi writes in – The idea is to experience urban sounds at various heights in a variety of cities. As feet are detected on a step, the experience changes to simulate an increase in altitude. A pair of surround sound headphones, some proximity sensors, leds and Arduino make everything work. Being able to vary your […]
Mike made an audio-only version of pong – looks like a lot of potential fun! When you put on the headphones, you hear a sound that is cycling through a sequence indicating its approach. The sound is somewhere on the left-right axis in the headphones. If the sound is to your left, you have to […]
The MAKE Game of Life kits are back! In 1970, John Conway came up with a 1-player game called Game of Life. The Game of Life is a mathematical game that simulates ‘colonies’ that grow or die based on how crowded or lonely they are and is known for the way it creates a beautiful […]
Today’s episode of BBtv has excerpts from Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season. GRL are the controversial artists behind the wildly popular LED Throwies, featured in MAKE Volume 06 and all over blogspace, and the amazing L.A.S.E.R. tagging system. Graffiti Research Lab, the movie Related: Throwie mania on Make: Blog Graffiti Research Lab » […]
An innovative, modular approach to LED displays appearring at Bay Area Maker Faire – Every time we look at computer screen, millions of pixels of light disappear into our work, our correspondence, or our entertainment. Imagine if you could capture those dots of light and scoop them up as you would grains of sand on […]
Jake looks to the future of making modern tech look like it’s from the past, and as usual, the attention to detail from his Steampunk Workshop is stunning. The inexorable march of technology has rendered my 4:3 aspect ratio 19″ LCD mod and my pump-less water cooled PC obsolete, so when I saw at 24″ […]
My friend Barrett sent along a link today to an Illustrator scripting plugin called Scriptographer. I’m sort of a slouch at Illustrator, so I had him give me the quick 411 and I must say, this is pretty cool. If you’re familiar with Javascript, Scriptographer will enable you to crank out little scripts that can […]
