Sci-Fi Instrument Is a Real Life Windows Media Visualizer
Artist Balam Soto has been making interactive projects for years. This is his latest: Exp.Inst.Rain, a wavering, touch-controlled instrument.
Technology
Breathtaking Handmade Electronics Workbench
Love Hultèn is a Swedish designer who likes to fuse modern high technology with traditional woodworking and shopcraft, creating a unique blend of everyday functionality with pleasing aesthetics and mad fabrication skills. We’ve covered Love’s amazing work before, in his supersized Lego computers and wooden MAME console, but this workbench takes the cake. The “Tempel,” […]
Adorable Automated Turret Launches Rubber Band Barrage
This 3D printed rubber band launching turret looks like it popped right out of Portal.
Before and After: Vintage Radio with Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi has truly opened up all kinds of possibilities in custom entertainment. One of the most fascinating possibilities lies in replacing the guts of a vintage radio or other media device and enhancing its abilities while keeping the aesthetics of yesterday. Gordon, who studied computer science and works in the semiconductor industry, decided […]
First Look: Bean+ Microcontroller Adds Greater Range, Better Battery, and More
Today Punch Through Design launched a Kickstarter campaign for their new Bluetooth LE Arduino-compatible microcontroller board the Bean+.
Beware the Hackable Google Beacons Made by Estimote
Manufacturers were quick to support Google’s new Eddystone beacon standard, but in the rush to support it, some manufacturers are ignoring basic security.
This Second-Grader Built an Arduino-Embedded Pinewood Derby Car
Makers come in many different forms, nationalities, and ages. The same can be said about the many projects that those Makers design and build, which range from robotics to automated homes and everything in between. One of the more interesting projects I came across at the Westport Maker Faire was from a young man named Emmett White. He […]
