Animated Origami Bird Flock
Paul Strohmeier built this beautiful animated origami bird flock system using a flexible stretch sensor, an Arduino, and some servos.
Month: April 2011
Cybraphon, Autonomous Emotional Robot Band
Cybraphon, the latest project from Edinburgh-based artist collective FOUND, searches the web for reviews of its performances, and changes its playing style as a result. Image conscious and emotional, the band’s performance is affected by online community opinion as it searches the web for reviews and comments about itself 24 hours a day.
Pillow Mace
Matt Borgatti made this pillow mace for NYC’s Pillow Fight Flash Mob.
Time Lapse: Lego Ship in a Bottle
This build from Julia Morley took “a week of planning, three days of building, a large number of expletives, and some interesting use of very long tools.” And you can enjoy the whole process (minus the expletives, which have been replaced with soothing music) in three minutes of 32X time-lapse bliss here. [via The Brothers Brick]
How-To: DIY Scratch Art
I loved doing scratch art as a kid. We used layers and layers of crayon, but Marisa of Make Happy shows how to create a scratch art canvas with holographic paper and acrylic paint. Can’t wait to try this with the kids!
April is UpCraft! Month
Good morning Crafters! With the start of April is our new theme – UpCraft! Don’t throw your trash away. Give old clothes, packaging and more a new life by crafting them into something more fun and different like this DIY book clutch from an old DVD case pictured above. This project will be up today […]
LEGO Large Format Camera
Cary Norton built this incredible large format camera out of LEGOs and calls it the Legotron, Mark I. The first few photographs Cary took with the camera left him “COMPLETELY FREAKING STOKED” and I understand why: they’re absolutely stunning. The focus range is currently limited to about 3 feet to 18 inches, but he hopes […]