Thanks to Petros for submitting this cool project: a pendulum that slowly draws a picture. These two installations of spinning pendulums can “print” any low-resolution picture in a unorthodox way. The head of the “printer” is the pendulum, that starts spinning after an initial push. Beside this, the pendulum’s movement or position is not controlled […]
Alicia Gibb has curated a show of Arduino-based artwork, based on the work of her master’s thesis, and it’ll be this Saturday in NYC! I’ll have an interactive embroidery piece in the show, and head over to the NYC Resistor site for a sneak peek at the work. Art, Design, and the Arduino: a lineage […]
Paralyzed Graffiti Artist Draws With His Eyes @NPR… A group of artists and hackers have crafted a gadget that lets a paralyzed graffiti artist continue making art using only his eyes. And it costs about as much as an iPod shuffle. Zach Lieberman of the Graffiti Research Lab started working on the EyeWriter with one […]
Thingaverse user Skimbal designed and printed this Gothic cathedral play set on his Makerbot.
Aaron Alai designed this kicking electronic business card, which demonstrates how transistor amplifiers work.
New York based artist and illustrator Scott Teplin, aka Scott the Drawer, is a professional with an impressive resumé. He’s had solo shows all over New York and Paris, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Keith Smith’s 2004 The Structure of the Visual Book, to name just a few of his many publication credits. His work is in permanent collections at the Smithsonian, SF-MOMA, and Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Universities, again to name just a few. Lately he’s been doing some work for McSweeney’s. This from his Makers Market bio:
Alexander Kobulnicky has been painting molecules since 2007. Pictured above are heme and chlorophyll, but over at his site you’ll find many many more, such as capsaicin, serotonin, prozac, pentobarbital, and LSD.
