Playing music using Dominoes
Here’s a low-tech way to share some holiday joy. Jared Lyon used a bunch of dominoes and some strategically placed bells to play the song ‘Carol of the Bells’ as the dominoes fell down.
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Piano that speaks!
By way of Alden Hart at HacDC comes this amazing computer-controlled analog piano that speaks, *almost* comprehensible English, when a frequency spectrum of a child reading the text of the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court is transferred to robot fingers that press the piano’s keys. Creepy. Cool. [Thanks, Alden!] Speaking Piano – Now […]
Amazing sound sculptures from motors & more
Zimoun‘s art makes use of motors and other machine hardware en masse to create some strange and quite elegant installations. [via EMSL]
In the Maker Shed: Designing Automata kit
The Designing Automata kit will teach you about simple mechanics using cams, cranks, and slider mechanisms. The kit includes instructions for making several different automata, and since no glue is used, it can be used over and over again. Made from chemical-free rubber wood that is from sustainable resources.
Elegant interactive art from salvaged electronics
Thessia Machado‘s Interference – an interactive sculpture/instrument made with harvested electronic parts. You can modulate both the sounds and the images by shading the light on the photocells. The lcd screen (from a discarded pda) is excited directly by the voltage output from the oscillator. [via Califaudio]
Human-shaped bed
A maker sent me a photo of this amazing human-shaped bed (art) — anyone know more about it?
Draco the red-nosed dragon
Robin and Chuck Nudd are at it again with their festive dragon. Chuck built the beaste out of steel junk a few winters ago, and Robin dresses him in seasonal finery.