George Hart @ MAKE writes: Tim Chartier at Davidson College has discovered that if you make things out of candy there’s no lack of volunteers to help you clean up. He takes images and transforms them mathematically into arrays of candy pieces. Here you can see President Obama, as rounded to the set of m&m […]
This is a super-rough hardware sketch of what a mechanical Twitter feed might look like. I’ve been playing with ideas around combining digital projection with mechanical motion and this is a prototype to test some of the ideas. It consists of a series of people I follow on Twitter represented as their user photo printed […]
These are from deviantART user dkart71. Back in 2007, we covered similar work from a Brazilian artist who goes by Blancosur. [via Boing Boing]
I love the look of traditional pysanky, but between not having a steady hand and not having much free time, I tend to shy away from it. Pam of Gingerbread Snowflakes has a brilliant idea for achieving the delicate pysanky look with Sharpies instead of wax and dye. As she points out, it’s also a […]
Check out this fully functional miniature crossbow from the same mind that created the Mini Brass Cannon featured a few months back.
This video from YouTuber akiyuky is close to 8 minutes of heavy duty LEGO automation that will almost certainly suck you in. Colored balls are hurried along the machine using over twenty GBC modules of varying complexity. Watch as they’re swept, shoveled, screwed, and pumped while being sorted, combined and placed on various transport mechanisms.
Youtube user Photonicinduction shows how to erase a CD using a high voltage step up transformer. It’s probably not the most efficient way to go about things, but it does look cool! [Thanks, Matt!]
