Scanner-cam @ Burning man
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Greenwithevil brought his flatbed scanner turned-camera to Burning Man and captured some intriguing images – Scanner Camera on Flickr From the pages of MAKE: MAKE:14 p.78 – Scanner Camera
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Skateboard staircase
Ted crafted a fitting set of stairs for his skateboard deck building school – This is a set of steps I made for our skateboard school. The aluminium beam is a solid billet of aluminium and the decks were custom made with concave only on one edge. You should see the look on our students […]
Trimphone by Lukas Vojir
The Trimphone is a modified telephone that includes a web cam in the earpiece and an Arduino in the base. By dialing different numbers the user can select different video loops that are mixed with the live feed from the web cam. [Thanks Lukas] The rotary dialer circuit and Arduino code are pretty simple. Dialer […]
Spittin’ marbles
I found this amazing marble machine on YouTube – the details are fantastic! The video is a little fuzzy, but there are some good close-ups of the workings.
Landspeeder replica is spot-on
Daniel Deutsch built this crazy-accurate replica of Luke Skywalker’s beat-up XP-34 landspeeder – We built this fiberglass replica landspeeder from the ground up on a custom aluminum chassis. The electric drive system is capable of a top speed around 25 mph. The speeder is the same size as the original, and can travel several miles […]
Styrobot built by father & son
Inspired by previous styrobotic art, Cool Tools blogger Kevin Kelly and his son built this fine bot from repurposed packing foam – I had five years’ worth of foam accumulated. I had some space in my studio to assemble it. I got my foam cutters handy. So we began designing. The bot had to fit […]
Light casing made from a sculpture of the sound waves it emits
The “Sound of Light ” by Matthew Fernandez is a case made for a flourescent tube light that was made by recording and graphic 1 second of the “hum” sound produced by the light. The pattern was made by laser cutting clear acrylic and 50 layers of the substance were uses where each layer corresponds […]