Inspired by 19th Century Standhopes, Bristol artist Luke Jerram (of “Play me, I’m yours” fame) designed this elegant and inspired portrait projecting ring for is wife Shelina Nanji as a wedding ring. Working together with jeweler Tamrakar, Jerram created a ring that, in a darkened room, with a light source behind it, will project a series of portraits from a selection of miniature slides.
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool: I really like this Circuit Board Bench by Doug Chase of Ogden, UT. He constructed it using stainless steel, steel, polyester resin, and polished circuit boards.
As a compliment to this morning’s post about making “light orbs,” here’s a second Flickr tutorial, from user tdub303, about making and using “light stencils” in your long-exposure light photography. Basically, the stencil is cut out of a light-tight box holding a camera flash, which is fired off to illuminate the design and record it on the exposure.
Flickr user evilKitchen brings us this nicely-photographed tutorial on building a switchable, spinnable multicolor LED bundle for making “light orb” style light graffiti. It’s based on an earlier, private tutorial by user Digicord.
There are some great presenters and exhibitors here at HOPE. Besides the usual suspects: Adafruit, EFF, Sparkle Labs, No Starch Press, there are a number of new faces. One of those is Brad Litwin, here with the folks from The Hacktory in Philadelphia, PA. We’ve covered Brad’s wonderful kinetic sculptures here before. In his basement […]
Many moons ago, we posted about the Facadeprinter citing some of its basic early paintball-blasted output. Since then, the device has apparently undergone some major refinements, now in its second prototype – The printer is equipped with an industrial PC which is running the specially programmed printing software. The machine is operated by touchscreen. Artworks […]
The fine folks at i3 Detroit heard that their hero Red Green was going to be in Detroit, and were determined to find a way to entice to visit their space.
