Nizo handmade automata
Huge gallery of handmade automata by Kazu Harada and Meg Harada, I wish there videos of all these! – Link.
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Perpetuum Mobile makes fountains run for cover
A machine called “Perpetuum Mobile” by Wessel di Wesseli which claims to run with no electricity and by gravity + water power. I’m still a bit dumbfounded! Dreams and free energy machines – Link [Ed. note – post up in the comments if you’ve seen/heard about this, might make a fun (re)make]
Bart Simpson gets steamed
From MiniatureBrainwave: Husband and wife team – Angel Tan and Justin Volpe created this steampunk piece for the custom Bart Simpson art exhibit held at theshowroomnyc this weekend. Known as the B.A.R.T. (Biomechanical Artificial Roving Terrain), this work is a shoutout to the steampunk esthetic. Steampunk Bart Simpson – Link Related: Steampunk coverage on MAKE: […]
Hard drive clock
Amazing hard drive clock from Germany – [via] Link & translated site.
Model railroad slums
I think I like these painstakingly detailed model railroad slums from artist Peter Feigenbaum more than the pristine happy versions – [via] Link.
SMSage makes surveillance fun
“SMSage”, an art installation by Tim Redfern and Ralph Borland, currently showing at the Conflux Festival in Brooklyn, is an SMS-driven urban installation that plants a sound murmur in the city when people send text messages to it. The project converts submitted text messages to speech and plays them over a parabolic speaker built into […]
Stitchable Arduino patches
We’ve mentioned Leah Buechley on the blog before. She’s a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Colorado who does some really innovative things with soft circuits, LED clothing, and other geek couture. She writes of her most recent projects, the LilyPad: e-textile construction kit version 2.0 There is no reason for fabric […]