Homemade coffee-balloon gripper easily picks up small objects
In this video, Steve Norris of Norris Labs presents his low-cost implementation of Cornell’s jamming-skin-enabled balloon gripper using a Handi-Vac as a vacuum source. [via BotJunkie]
Year: 2011
Surface Detail: hyp-fractal-notic
[Via Boing Boing]
The art bikes of Todd Kundla
Check out the groovy art bikes of Todd Kundla–many of which have appeared on Tour de Fat.
Hologram demo using Kinect
From New Scientist [via Boing Boing]: The holographic images are still rather fuzzy. But just a couple of months after the first demonstration of holographic telepresence, the frame rate has jumped a factor of 30, from one frame every two seconds to an impressive 15 frames per second. Michael Bove’s group at the MIT Media […]
Masking Tape Graffiti
Australian artist BUFFdiss makes amazing masking tape graffiti. Checking out his Flickr stream, it’s cool to see how his style has progressed over time, and that he’s still devoted to making his signature art using only masking tape. Check out this interview/profile that Upper Playground did of BUFFdiss, if you haven’t seen it yet. His […]
Mess-Approved Recipe Holder
I’ll be honest – I make I mess when I cook. There’s food splatter on everything. I also tend to ::still:: save recipes out of magazines or print them out from online. Realizing paper and splatter actually DON’T mix, I decided to make a quick recipe faux book of some of my favorite collected recipes […]
Masking tape redefined
A few years ago, PT introduced us to Australian artist BUFFdiss’ amazing masking tape graffiti. Checking out his Flickr stream, it’s cool to see how his style has progressed over time, and that he’s still making his signature art. Also check out this interview/profile that Upper Playground did of BUFFdiss, if you haven’t seen it […]
