Making Furniture with Magnetism
Our crack shot of an Art Director, Jason Babler, sent me a link to this video of Dutch artist Jólan van der Wiel’s Gravity Stool project.
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This Saturday, Jan 21: Young Makers / Open MAKE at the Exploratorium
Come to the Exploratorium this weekend as the Tinkering Studio hosts the first of four Open MAKE Saturdays. It runs from 10am to 2pm on the third Saturday of each month through April. Explore your own creativity with makers from around the Bay Area, who will share their art, ingenuity, and techniques for making.
Plotter-Style Painting Machine
Lithuanian artist Gintautas Velykis creates art with the help of an algorithmic painting robot that lays down layer after layer of paint. His art machine, called ART.e.FAX, sprays droplets of water-based paint — see this cool demo.
Play the Rings of a Tree Trunk Like a Record
What would a tree sound like if a cross section of it were played like an LP? Bartholomäus Traubeck attempts to find out.
The Power of Making at the V&A
A remarkable exhibit on the maker movement had been running since September at London’s Victoria and Albert museum, having just closed in January. A visit over the holidays to London gave me a chance to see the exhibit for myself. The show collects the products, processes, and tools from dozens of makers throughout the world, […]
Kinetic Sculpture Pushes Gravity’s Envelope
Ben Light displayed Kinetic Sculpture 5 at the ITP Winter Show last month. When the user waves his/her hand over a photoresistor, a push solenoid is triggered, causing a rod to decouple and swing to the other side. Whatever losses are sustained due to conservation of energy are then recovered by a strong magnet that gives the rod that extra pull it needs to couple to an identical solenoid on the opposite end.
Pythagoras, a Delta Robot That Draws
I got a fever, and the only prescription is more drawbots. Georgia Tech student Aaron Fan sent in his great delta robot that can make line drawings and shade in cool patterns. Pythagoras is a drawing delta robot. The goals for this robot was high speed and high precision pen work. OpenCV is used to […]
