Woodblock printer David Bull has time lapse video (and images) of his latest scroll print, he writes – “This is a three hour sequence of images captured from the Woodblock Webcam, showing the process of carving one of the blocks for the scroll print I am making this year. As the webcam was set to […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Ehgradman is making velocity aware LED “Poi” – Poi comes from New Zealand’s Maori people, weighted balls are spun around, usually with ribbons on the end, adding super bright LEDs that change color / brightness based on speed sounds awesome, this looks like a great project! Link.
Here’s how to make a spider-like robot / ornament. It uses a pager motor to vibrate spider across table – Link.
Pepsi is deploying these posters in Toronto and Vancouver subways, when your plug your headphones in they play music – Link. You could make your own version by grabbing one of these $9 MP3 players, hacking it up and extending the battery….Could be fun for a DIY art frame that plays music or talks when […]
George Hart’s geometric sculptures, I really like the floppy disk one – “This is Disk Combobulation I, an assemblage of thirty 3.5 inch floppy diskettes, slotted and slid into each other gluelessly, embodying a precise five-color pattern. Each diskette is penetrated by diskettes of the other four colors. Twelve five-sided openings are each bordered by […]
Scott J. Franklin’s handblown glass lamp with adjustable brightness, in water – “The WET Lamp is an elegant and playful series of glass lamps with an alluring water-submerged light bulb at its center. Putting an exposed light bulb in water certainly raises some eyebrows, but it also creates an intriguingly simple dimmer switch. When a […]
The secrets of making marionettes, from Popular Mechanics 1934 – Link.
