Fruit-flavored superweapon
Evil Mad Scientists on sci-fi fruit modding: One cantaloupe, a knife, and five minutes. Your very own (and very tasty) planet-killing superweapon. “That’s no melon!”
Month: July 2008
Robotic ‘marinelife’ of Shih Chieh Huang
Seen @ Santa Monica’s Glow arts event – EX-SE-08 by artist Shih Chieh Huang combines video, lights, fans and plastics to create the undulating life-like robotic sculpture seen above. – Shih Chieh Huang [via NOTCOT]
Next Dorkbot SoCal, July 26, 2008
The next Dorkbot SoCal is this coming Saturday, July 26, 2008, at Machine Project (1200 D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA). Presenters: Steven Gentner Steven Gentner will be speaking about a robot project built using RoboRealm, a powerful free computer vision based application for use in machine vision, image analysis, and image processing systems. […]
Electric pick synth
Here’s an interesting device that makes use of an oft neglected part of the guitar playing interface, the pick – 1- The pick itself is a passive circuit that has apercussive attack at the output. This signalcan be routed to any pedal or effect forinteresting results. This signal can alsotrigger MIDI notes through devices with […]
Downside-Up Spiced Peach Pots
Jenn at Indie Fixx kicks starts her new column “What’s so Indie About Food?” with this delicious looking recipe for Downside-Up Spiced Peach Pots by her friend Laura Cochran.
David Carter pop-ups
David Carter is the author of many silly pop-up books for kids – he also wrote The Elements of Pop-ups, a book about the construction and mechanics of pop-ups. He’s put together a page of movies and PDF dies showing how to make your own pop-ups.
Papercut art of Béatrice Coron
Rag and Bone points us to the amazingly complex papercuts of B̩atrice Coron. In addition to paper, she uses Tyvek, aluminum, and stainless steel. More: HOW TO РMake Paper Cuts with Skinny laMinx