Absolutely stunning! – Five automatic sound machines will provide musical accompaniment for the opening celebrations at the Hanover Fair – thanks to technology from Festo. Pneumatic components and a PLC control system will be applied very differently from the way they are used in industrial automation: They will create a bridge between technology and art. […]
I really like todbot’s projects, here’s one he’s working on now called WineM – WineM solves the problem of remembering all the information about the wines in a large wine rack, cellar or cabinet, or searching through that data. This smart wine rack makes that information always accessible and updatable. todbot blog » Blog Archive […]
Jason writes – With some conductive fabric and spirit gum, you can make a simple binary switch that attaches to your eyelids. Andrew Schneider used some of these to make a polaroid camera that takes a snapshot when you blink. When I first saw these, I was reminded of cyborgs in television and film and […]
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories writes – If you work with electronics, you have probably at some point come across chips that have gone bad. The usual strategies to deal with these include (1) writing “DEAD?” on them in large letters (2) throwing them out, and (3) hiding the evidence. I once heard about a lab […]
Here’s an amazing recreation of a Coney Island Shooting gallery made digitally with eBay images and a gyroscoping mouse – Link.
Nonlineargirl writes – This Japanese site documents a mother’s daily bento preparation – each one a work of edible art. I saw an article in my local paper about this, and followed the link mentioned. Click the month links at the top of the page (in English) to see what the bento art looks like […]
These are pretty neat, 360 degree speaker concepts over @ Yanko Design – [via] Link. In the latest volume of MAKE (11) we show you how to make a “ball of sound” … a low-cost spherical speaker array. MAKE 11 – Page 141. Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition or subscribe to MAKE!
