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Applause machine

Dug North writes in – When the you push the button, The Applause Machine claps it’s hands for you. The Applause Machine is a motorized automaton designed by Martin Smith that will be widely available in September of 2008. The piece is constructed of coated steel, brass, Walnut, plastic and a small motor. It measures […]

Grass art –  Photographic photosynthesis

Grass art – Photographic photosynthesis

Grass art – Photographic photosynthesis by Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey via NOTCOT. The artists essentially use grass as a form of photographic paper, projecting a black-and-white negative image onto a patch of grass as it grows in a dark room, and using the natural photosensitive properties of the grass to reproduce photographs… When grass […]

Tyrant alarm clock

Tyrant alarm clock

Alice Wang’s tyrant makes waking up a little more important… via Engadget. This alarm clock steals your mobile phone and randomly shuffles through your contact list and calls someone every three minutes after the desired wake up time. This looks like a concept piece, but you could actually build one of these in few ways… […]

ThingamaKIT

ThingamaKIT

Customize your noise-generating robot-themed analog synth by building your own! The Bleep Labs popular Thingamagoop robot is now available in kit form as the ThingamaKIT, so you can make it entirely unique. More: Thingamagoop alarm mod Halloween-themed Thingamagoops Robots at Maker Faire Austin