Slime Lamp Mixes, Changes Colors, Responds to Heartbeats
This amorphous, gooey blob is a slime lamp
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Beats Into Bots: GlueMotor Drives PWM Servos with Smartphone Audio
One of my favorite aspects of editing projects at Make: is seeing how other people approach technology. It’s truly energizing to see someone use a basic component in a way you’d never think of doing yourself. Such an experience is exactly what happened when I first saw Kazu Terasaki’s GlueMotor — a method of controlling […]
See Your Insides Animated Via Kinect with Your Anatomy
You see yourself mirrored on a screen. Unlike a mirror, as you move closer your internal anatomy seems to be revealed, layer by layer. You can see your animated skeleton, muscles, and internal organs move as you move. Is this a new high tech X-Ray machine? Well no, but it’s still pretty cool. Diana Salles, […]
Mechanical Shadow Theatre at Saint-Malo Mini Maker Faire
I talk to the Lever le Rideau, a theatre group specialising in stage costumes and sets, about the intriguing collection of mechanical shadow theatres they’ve brought to Maker Faire.
Catching up with WeIO at Saint-Malo Mini Maker Faire
We catch up with Uroš Petrevski to find out what’s happened with the WeIO micro controller board announced at the previous Saint-Malo Mini Maker Faire two years ago.
A Robot Sculpture, Made By A Robot
The first thing that greets you as you come to the Saint-Malo faire is a huge stone statue of Makey. What most people don’t find out till later is that this statue of a robot was originally carved by a robot.