Milwaukee’s Best Samurai
Milwaukee’s Best Samurai via Reddit.
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Jar lamp makes for a nice present
Ben Light made jar lamps as presents for his family’s DIY holiday gift exchange.
Japano pop promo for Fireplace Simulacra
Banana Design Labs whipped up this adorable Japano-pop promo for their Fireplace Simulacra, a neat ambient toy light designed right onto a circuit board. We carry them in the Maker Shed, as well as their Angler Fish of similar design.
Light plant brighter, presumably harder to kill than regular plants
Having just put the finishing touches on the robot plant build, I’ve got both virtual and real flora on my mind
“Do Not Touch Chair” – Operation-like gallery game
“Do Not Touch Chair” by Dominic Wilcox: A line wire sculpture of a chair made with a single, continuous length of wire. Try to move the metal hoop around the chair without touching it. If you do touch the chair the speaker in the plinth will announce ‘Do not touch’. Dominic Wilcox was invited to […]
Incredible electronic bronze brain sculptures
Alex Schlegel made these two neuroscience-themed self portraits based on a model of his actual brain cast in bronze. Alex writes: This self-portrait is a life-sized, anatomically-correct bronze cast of my cerebral cortex. Embedded on the surface of the cortex is a cluster of 60 flickering, yellow LEDs resembling the statistical parametric maps used in […]
Electrocution drum kit
Daito Manabe and friends at 4nchor5 lab6 built this drum kit using a myoelectric sensor to take signals in, and electric face stimulation to translate the taps into twitches.