Lovely Radial LED Matrix
Beautiful work from Instructables user ledartist. “Aurora” sports 162 RGB LEDs on a custom two-sided PCB and a fancy high-resolution PWM scheme to provide impressively smooth color transitions. Mesmerizing.
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Mad Scientist Lab Notebook Art
This piece (“Weapons of Mass Destruction Q76T14 W5”) can be seen with at least six of Brooklyn artist Justin Amrhein’s similar works at San Francisco’s Michael Rosenthal Gallery from June 25 to July 30, and online at Justin’s site.
Food Sculptor Ray Villafane Shares Pumpkin Carving Tips
Artist Ray Villafane talks about his work and shares tips for creating your own cut-above pumpkins.
Laser Cut a Stencil for Adjustable Infographic Graffiti
For those of you who want to practice dissent using statistics, you can laser cut your own spray paint stencil with an adjustable pie chart and lettering. This comes to us from Golan Levin, who offers Illustrator PDF files in two sizes so that you can act like an infographic rebel in your own neighborhood. […]
RepRap Family Tree
Of interest to desktop industrialists and infographics connoisseurs alike, this visual history of RepRap forks from Thingiverse user watsdesign. More details are available on the RepRap wiki, and, naturally, a poster is for sale.
The QR-3D Project: Data in Textile Form
Marital Code (detail), Inga Hamilton QR codes are pretty cool – they’re square black-and-white graphics that your camera phone (or a barcode reader) can recognize. The intricate pattern of a QR code is actually data, and when your device reads this data, it gets pointed to a website. QR codes are free and readily available […]
441 Drops of Water, Neatly Arranged by Machine
It’s mesmerizing to watch Pe Lang‘s mechanical artwork in motion, especially this machine that arranges droplets of water on an omniphobic surface. From Triangulation: Falling objects – positioning systems from 2009-2011 is a custom made machine that adds drops of water onto a special textured surface. Each drop forms into an almost perfect sphere through […]