Technology

Meet the Makers: Lightchimes

Jimmy Chion, Jason Chua, and Kiran Malladi are the creators of Lightchimes, 169 hanging LED pendants. The circuit is simple, but the results are complex. This project is about interaction- without interference from a participant, the lights would never shine. Similarly, without collaborative interaction, this project would never have become a reality.

Lightchimes will be at Maker Faire Bay Area, May 21 & 22, where you can experience the mesmerizing twinkling firsthand.

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Radio Shack Decides It Loves DIYers After All

Via @idris_arslanian: After shrinking its electronic components aisle down to a single parsimonious cabinet flanked by overpriced batteries, TVs, and cell phones, it would appear that the Shack has been forced to re-evaluate its priorities given the lackluster state of its earnings. The above ad, which was emailed out to customers, says that 2,000 of […]

Continue Reading April 28th, 2011 John Baichtal194

How-To: Helmet Mohawks

A commenter on yesterday’s CRAFT-y Bike Projects round-up alerted me to the DIY bike helmet mohawk phemonenon. Those pictured at left are from 2009 by Instructables user dan. The bright orange model is made from cable ties. To lower right…

Continue Reading April 28th, 2011 Sean Michael Ragan17

Custom EBike Boasts 76 Kilometers Per Hour, 210 Per Charge

A commenter on last week’s electric bike round-up pointed me to this drool-inducing 2008 build from one “Doctorbass,” of Quebec. I am especially impressed by the custom-built battery pack.

Continue Reading April 27th, 2011 Sean Michael Ragan2

Digital Puppeteering With Moviesandbox

Friedrich Kirchner has made a digital puppeteering tool for use with his open source animation tool Moviesandbox which allows you to interface an Arduino with homemade soft circuit puppets to create live digital puppet shows. This video shows some simple sock puppets outfitted with Hannah Perner-Wilson’s neoprene bend sensors controlling a couple of on-screen fish actors through an […]

Continue Reading April 27th, 2011 David Cranor2

Caterpillar Bot Mimics “Ballistic Rolling”

From Huai-Ti Lin, Gary G. Leisk, and Barry Trimmer from the Departments of Biology, and Mechanical Engineering, at Tufts University. ScienceNOW has video of the model organism, and the model behavior, that inspired this impressive means of locomotion.

Continue Reading April 27th, 2011 Sean Michael Ragan2

30 Days of inPulse Faces

NYC Resistor’s Trammell Hudson is designing an inPulse interface a day for 30 days. Inspired by Ranjit’s instrument-a-day, I’m writing a new wrist watch face every day for my programmable inPulse watch. The full sources are posted online for others to build on. Day 1 was a fixed point 3D rendering engine with a rotating […]

Continue Reading April 27th, 2011 John Baichtal4

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