Christmas light hero
Not jazzed about putting out plain old Christmas lights after all of the awesome Halloween projects? Why not mix it up a bit and convert your entire yard into a Guitar Hero game?
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Jaw-dropping fully articulated machined figurines
In brass and stainless steel. From Mark Ho of Zoho International Artforms. Thank you, Mark, for inspiring us all. [via The Automata / Automaton Blog]
Awesome wasp junk art
I have seen lots of junk sculptures in my time, but few if any have impressed me as much as this one by artist S. Allen which, as of this morning, was available for sale at Seattle’s Great Stuff boutique. And since it’s reportedly priced at $4,500 US, it probably still is. [via Boing Boing]
New in the Maker Shed: Stray Sock Sewing book
The Stray Sock Sewing book gives you inspiration for ways to repurpose your unpaired, old, or just plain ugly socks. The book Includes a gallery of the author’s inspirational creations, a section on stitches and techniques needed for sock sewing, and detailed instructions on 8 different projects you can make from socks.
Flux Factory box set fundraiser tonight in NYC
The Flux Factory, a not-for-profit arts organization in Long Island City is having a night of “performances, music, free booze, and excellent people.” Go check out some really great artists; there will be limited-edition work for sale by Brandstifter, Bread & Butter Collective, Andrea Dezso, Kerry Downey, Heather Jones, Aya Kakeda, Miwa Koizumi, Simone Meltesen, […]
Eye shield gives your Arduino an eye
David Chatting built this Arduino Eye Shield so that he could hook up an analog video camera to his Arduino. It sounds pretty crazy, however by utilizing an LM1881 video sync separator chip and some comparators, he was able to use the Arduino to capture at least 8 1-bit monochrome values from each line of video data.
POV project sports a copper hand, resistor fingers
From the MAKE Flickr pool Jenine.net shared this pic of her unique copper-palmed persistence of vision box – I’m making a “Persistence of Vision” toy, which will show a programmed message in eight red light- emitting diodes. In the Fab Lab we have a roll of copper foil backed with a conductive adhesive. I used […]