Steelhorserider76 writes – This is a road in Lancaster Ca. that makes music when you drive over it. It was created for a commercial and they designed harmonics in the asphalt to create the music when driven over. Apparently other countries have been doing it for awhile. Unfortunately people complianed and it is being removed. […]
The “Rythm Ring” is an interactive rhythm sequencer that is driven by a tangible interface, similar to the “BeatBearing” project that we covered here on Make back in January. This version is arranged in a circle with a central ring of LEDs that provide the user with live feedback for current “playhead” position with bright […]
Hawking unveils ‘strangest clock’ via /. A £1m clock called the “time eater” has been unveiled at Cambridge University by Professor Stephen Hawking. The author of A Brief History of Time was guest of honour when the unique clock, which has no hands or numbers, was revealed at Corpus Christi College. Dubbed the strangest clock […]
More specifically, things got coated with a thick layer of gore courtesy of the Gore Cannon. More on that in my next post; for now, thanks to all of our presenters for a great event: Nick Pietraniec explaining his work-in-progress guitar hero-bot. Edwin Wise and his Abyssal Organ. Meredith Johns (pictured) and Carolyn O’Hara from […]
Nice concept… “encoder rings” via CrunchGear. Encoder Rings began as an investigation in how to store precious or personal digital information. The result is a series of rings that are decorated with tiny blobs and holes, that actually represent letters in binary code; the code used as the basis for digital information. The user would […]
You’ve most likely seen a few “daily self portrait collections, but how many of them spanned 17 years? Dan Hanna describes his project – 17 years worth of taking 2 photos a day as my head rotates in sync with the Earth around the Sun. This is a non-dejittered, lo-res, highly compressed, preliminary version of […]
Look at the gorgeous joins on this table by Nathan Wierink! There’s lots of other amazing work on his site, too. Via Bloesem
