Guy worked on these pieces from 1986 – 2006. Over the course of 20 years he has moved from finding his parts at local shops, to scouring the Internet for interesting pieces. These are some of the most amazing electronic sculptures I have ever seen. In each piece I attempt to design circuitry that creates […]
Artist Thomas Doyle makes fascinating art, tells compelling stories, with model train miniatures and scenery. I’ve always been strangely attracted to these miniature components and wondered why more people don’t make art, jewelry, dioramas, etc. with them. Art by Thomas Doyle [Thanks, Patti!]
Andrew Turley turned a microfiche viewer into a musical/MIDI interface simply by pointing a photodiode at the screen and feeding the light values into an MCU and out to a Casio keyboard. As you scroll through the microfiche content, the changing light values of the data make music. Maker Faire Highlights: Making Music the Hard […]
Hack-a-day posted up one of my favorite projects @ Maker Faire, SWARM!
The wood version of the “Weird Sound Generator” (pictured above), is one of a series of home built synths by Sascha Neudek. Really nice construction on all of the synths and he even sells them from his site which is pretty cool since they have a one-of-a-kind type look and feel. Subtle Noise Maker
This project by Aleks Kolkowski creates records by using a vintage record cutter to carve grooves into old CDs and DVDs. In his recent showing of the project at the Futuresonic Festival in the UK, visitors came by with sound files which he would carve into the discs and then give copies back as a […]
In London? Check out the Paper Wars show, opening May 15 at the Craze Gallery. It’s themed around the papercraft AK-47 and features many pieces based off that kit, as well as other sculptures like the one above. Via Core77. Related: Papercraft AK-47 on CRAFT
