acorv built this sweet drawing arm* with an Arduino Uno and motor shield, two steppers and a servo, Meknex building set parts, and a Nintendo DS touch screen to guide it. Also see the previous version* previous version to see how the project evolved. [via Arduino] *Google translated from Spanish.
This bot visualizes earthquakes as splotches of paint, squirting paint color coded to the strength of each quake. Quakescape is a 3D fabricator that works by taking earthquake data from the site GeoNet (www.geonet.org.nz) and transferring it into the medium of art by using paint and Arduino technology. Quakescape creates a transformation of data that […]
From Etsy seller Daniel Shankalonian comes this tasty junk art delicacy. “Created entirely from a hard drive, a laptop keyboard, and various parts from a dead motherboard…stand is included, also made out of hard drive parts and broken headphones.”
My friend Sean McIntyre and his collaborator Reid Bingham created Public Constructions, a light installation that borrows its aesthetic from construction barricades and warning lights. The tech behind it is pretty cool, too. “The 10 foot tall glowing flowers in the installation were made from 64 hacked traffic barricade lights,” according to their site. “Each […]
Matters of Grey shared 19 Stars Wars snowflakes patterns a couple of years ago, and even though they’re not new, it doesn’t make them any less stellar. Several of the designs look ripe for 3D printing. Now the real question is: who’s down to post CAD files for them on Thingiverse? Looks like the Vadar […]
An-Magritt created these diamonds from a 3D printable paper templates pattern created by Kate from Mini Eco. You could add them atop a gift this holiday or to your tree. I would make a dozen diamonds and suspend them from an embroidery hoop to create a hanging installation. That’s just me.
For the second installment in our new series, MAKE: Believe, we visited model maker Fon Davis who has had his fingers in tiny landscapes that have become our favorite big screen worlds.
