In celebration of Advanced Materials Month here on MAKE, I’m bringing you the most fabulous wearable electronics using innovative conductive materials like fibers and paints. This is the roundup to end all other roundups; it showcases 22 of my favorite projects. Above: Soft Circuit Musical Hats
I seem to recall that speaker enclosures should be rigid and massive, generally speaking, but there’s no denying the cool factor in this build-it-yourself project from Quebecois industrial designer Samuel Bernier. [via nerdstink]
Lithuanian artist Gintautas Velykis creates art with the help of an algorithmic painting robot that lays down layer after layer of paint. His art machine, called ART.e.FAX, sprays droplets of water-based paint — see this cool demo.
DIY speaker enclosures are a great way to add a little personal style into your decor. Daniel McLeod’s Recycled Atari 2600 Portable Media Audio Dock has to be one of the cooler enclosures I’ve run across lately. Replacing the internals with speakers and including a 30-pin iPhone connector on the cartridge, this custom speaker is […]
Working at Make: Labs is always fun, especially when you get to test kits before they’re released to the public. As part of MAKE Volume 29 we got to build and test the Tiny Wanderer kit, designed by Doug Paradis and featured in the issue. Inspired by the now-discontinued SERB Robot kit, the Tiny Wanderer uses […]
I saw that my friend Thomas Edwards, tech artist and Dorkbot Overlord, was going to be at CES, so I asked him to share some thoughts on maker-friendly offerings at the event. Here’s what he sent. – Gareth Sphereo is a radio-controlled robotic sphere, about the size of a tennis ball. While driving around a […]
Ben Light displayed Kinetic Sculpture 5 at the ITP Winter Show last month. When the user waves his/her hand over a photoresistor, a push solenoid is triggered, causing a rod to decouple and swing to the other side. Whatever losses are sustained due to conservation of energy are then recovered by a strong magnet that gives the rod that extra pull it needs to couple to an identical solenoid on the opposite end.
