Low-cost ZigBee sniffer made with open source hardware
Akiba of Freak Labs wrote in to share how he used one of his open hardware Freakduino boards to create a realtime wireless protocol analyzer for the 802.15.4 standard.
Year: 2011
Magnificent wooden manipulator arm
The latest of many truly outstanding wooden toys from Japanese YouTuber kinohagurama. [via The Automata / Automaton Blog]
“Inception” Paper Sculpture
This fantastic paper sculpture by Lynne Dhenson of the fight scene from Inception is even more impressive when you learn what her self-imposed “rules” of paper cutting are. It’s all one continuous piece of paper (in fact, aside from several sections taken out of the base no paper has been removed at all, which is […]
Ternary kinetic sculpture
There’s something mesmerizing about a steel ball on a track. It’s the anticipation, I suppose. In Thinking Machine by Martin Riches and Masahiro Miwa the artists have cleverly implemented a ternary computer with levers and tracks that constantly cycle steel balls down internal structures towards three chimes that ring out a computed melody.
Worlds smallest solar movie theater in a trailer
I’m often surprised how much one can fit inside a trailer. Check out this deceptively accommodating movie theater crammed into a recycled 1960’s era travel trailer. It’s solar powered and comes complete with ticket booth, concession stand, and seating for eight adults.
Massive “Wearables + Soft Computing” resources list
Printed LED film from Sun-Tec Artist, teacher, technologist Christopher T. Palmer, aka “CTP,” was asking recently on the ThingM Sketching list, for suggestions of resources for a class he’s going to be teaching on “Active Wearable Objects.” He started to get a bunch of great input and so I asked him to compile it and […]
Hackerspace cupcake challenge
Lish posted the following on CRAFT: Who says cupcakes are just for crafters?! There’s a hackerspace challenge right now to send a cupcake in pristine condition to another hackerspace across the country. I’m wondering — have any of you tried to mail cupcakes or cakes before? Any tips and/or tricks? Those are my sprinkle cupcakes […]
