Vibrobot painting
Hey, elephants and chimps can do it, why not jittery little vibrobots? Vibrobot Paintings – Link
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Gallery inside a locker
Danfolkes writes in about this project from Virginia Commonwealth University; a gallery where everything is scaled down to fit inside a locker, even the wood floors. – Link.
Remote controlled inchworm
This isn’t exactly a typical R/C toy you can play with in your backyard. This is a giant, gas powered, inchworm-killing machine. This large, remote-controlled wheeled machine moves with either a crabbing or inching motion, and has a large vertical jaw mounted on the front that can grab and carry props. It has four wheels, […]
Hand-drawn holograms
Jason has a cool item on Hackszine about lo-tek “abrasion holography:” Typically the creation of a hologram involves lasers and various other expensive equipment and materials. William J. Beaty figured out a low-tech way to create your own holograms using a simple abrasion technique that requires only a compass and a chunk of plastic. He […]
Kitchen Budapest overview
Regine at We Make Money Not Art posted a nice roundup of the interesting projects going on at Kitchen Budapest. She writes: Kitchen Budapest, a new media lab which opened its doors in June 2007, invites researchers, designers and artists to explore the convergence of mobile communication, online communities and urban space but also their […]
Calculating “Danmark”
Calculating Danmark incorporates an old 7-segment calculator and an Arduino to make a physical representation of Second Life’s virtual economics. I really it when the physical and virtual worlds are combined into a piece of artwork. Calculating Danmark is a comment to how Second Life is branded on its economical possibilities, to such an extent […]
Etch A Sketch clock
Angela writes – This is a video of my take on the automated Etch-A-Sketch. It’s an EAS that automatically draws out the time then erases itself, every minute. It’s built on the Arduino platform and references Scott Fergerson’s awesome CNC EAS as well as Douglas Jones’s excellent site on steppers. Etch-A-Sketch clock on Revver – […]