Gort
Gort, a Theremin-like experience installation at Burning Man 2007 – Link.
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White Lies: the empathic robot painter
Trossen Robotics runs a monthly contest to encourage interesting and innovative robot-related projects. The winning entry this month (September) is an art piece called White Lies, a mysterious robot painting machine housed in old sewing cabinet that paints as you approach and touch it. First place winners of the contest get a $200 Trossen Robotics […]
nOtbOt video game system controls itself, scares onlookers
The “nOtbOt” is an autonomous gaming system / art project that uses the force-feedback system found in most game controllers or “rumble packs” as an impetus to control its own movements of a first-person shooter style game. Pretty interesting idea for a gaming hack, we just wonder if there’s any chance of winning this way. […]
Mona Lisa made from recycled train tickets
This Mona Lisa was made from 320,000 used tickets from the nankai Namba train station in Japan, over 300 employees help create it… [via] Link.
LED lamp art
A French designer named Kei Yamamoto has created this uber LED lamp which is 20 times the size of a normal LED bulb. He writes: Not only does the product show the beauty of the LED structure, but it also creates a special visual effect on the ceiling, 12 LED bulbs are refracted through the […]
Concrete Crickets NPR story
Artist Michael Dory is still making his “Concrete Crickets,” these little electronic devices implanted in smushed cups and cans, and NPR has done an audio story on him and this form of streetcorner graffiti. – [via] Link. Related: Concrete Crickets – Link.
HardDisko makes music from sixteen used hard drives
“HardDisko”, an art project by Valentina Vuksic controls sixteen hard drives by alternating simple power/timer circuits to conduct a symphony of sorts. Attached to each disk is a sound pickup connected to a mixer so that when the drive starts up, its initialization process is amplified out to the speakers. Maybe the “Disko” name also […]