Ben Hollis and Eva Funderburgh chose an unusual material to house their Arduino in: clay. Glowback, the little creature they’ve created, has nodules on its back made of transluscent porcelain. The porcelain gives off a soft glow in staggered rhythms provided by the super bright LEDs underneath the nodules.
I saw this great video on the Flickr blog this morning. Apparently this is based on the Covenant Assault Carrier from the HALO game series. Ben Caulkins, or Benny Brickster on Flickr, has some amazing Lego creations. Notably, his Portal series, Tranformers, and more Lego HALO pieces. The Six Feet Assault Carrier More: Lego Mindstorms Submarine […]
Generating spheres at an absurd scale is sculptor Keith Holamon’s obsession. Using a custom apparatus mounted on a flatbed trailer, Holaman laboriously chips away at mammoth hunks of burl to produce massive orbs that evoke a sense of the familiar while being completely alien at the same time.
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
Besides being a gifted engineer and writer, John de Cristofaro is a talented photographer. Of this beautiful black-and-white “smoking iron” print, he writes: “All of us started the same way — as curious kids (maybe big kids). At first, most of us were following in the path of someone else — along what feels like a straight, well-defined line. But there’s a point where things start to diverge, and we go off and do our own thing. That’s what making is all about, and that’s what I tried to capture here.”
This obsessively faceted little gem made me smile so wide, I thought an alien lifeform was going to burst forth from my face! This shot-by-shot homage to the Prometheus trailer is done with 100% paper (and flashlights). It was directed, edited and paper-construction by Travis Betz (aka “The Receptionist” on YouTube). I guess people are […]
In this role-blurring piece by Apple Store hacker Kyle McDonald and Make pal Matt Mets, the user/subject closes their eyes and rests their forearm on a moving platform that guides a pen held in their hand to draw a self-portrait.
