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The Corpus Clock

Visually stunning to say the least – John Taylor describes the unique operation and appearance of the timepiece he designed and built with a team of over 200 engineers, artists and scientists. After seven years in the making, the device will now be donated to Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. – Beware the time-eater [Neatorama]

Build your own laser tag system

Build your own laser tag system

This homebrew LaserTag game uses a cheap laser pointer combined with a toy gun and a PIC16F628A microcontroller that connects up to a piezo transducer which is used for producing various beeps. The 5 pin header plug at the bottom of the device is used to connect to a programmer for in-circuit programming. Check out […]

Vanity mudflaps?

Vanity mudflaps?

From the MAKE Flickr photo pool At first glance, you might mistake these as the next trend in customized vehicle accessories, but these personalized mudflaps are actually part of Steven Laurie’s ongoing art piece – The mud flap project is an experimental body of mixed media works designed to brand my art making practice and […]

Painting pitches with DrawSound

The DrawSound project uses modified drawing and painting implements to interface with touchscreen driven audio software. In effect, this process renders visual art from the users manipulation of the output. Skip ahead to ~4min20s to see the setup in employed for use in the Sine Wave Quartet performance. – DrawSound PDF [via Synthtopia]