Pachinko sculpture
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Daniel W. made a really interesting sculpture, you lift and navigate the little metal balls and then release them pachinko style – Link.
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The Cameratruck – Pinhole camera truck
Clara writes “We’re currently setting up an exhibit Spain’s largest and most prestigious photography festival, about the one month road trip we’ve made around Spain aboard a 5 meter truck we’ve converted into a giant pinhole camera. We’ve taken over 80 photos all around the Iberian peninsula, 20 of which will be exhibited in Madrid […]
HOW TO – Print color images on to wood
Radiorental writes “Based on the letter tiles instructable you can make any number of objects from key fobs, jigsaw puzzles. Most applications require nothing more than sealing the image with some varnish which also helps the colours stand out. However in this instructable I show an alternative method of ‘printing’ an image on to wood […]
RFID enabled flame shooting trampoline
Video and pictures from the flame shooting RFID enabled trampoline at the Maker Faire! See Dale catch some air! – “The High-Lighter is a trampoline based flame effect. The installation involves a volunteer from the audience jumping on a unmodified trampoline. An ultrasonic sensor placed below the trampoline measures the changes in the height of […]
MAKE Podcast:Microsofties Make Bugbots at Maker Faire
What do you get when you combine a capacitor, some LEDs, and a solar cell? A B.E.A.M. Bug Bot! B.E.A.M. stands for Biology Electronics Aesthetics Mechanics which means that the robots are inspired by biology which means bugs. Vic De Leon and Stewart Tansley, explained that the solar cell doesn’t put out enough power to […]
Excel drawings
Dozens of drawings all made with Microsoft Excel – Danielle writes – “Microsoft Excel is a program designed to track and compute information, but here I am using Excel as a drawing tool. These drawings are a part of a series of sixty drawings that I executed (more or less) every day for fifty-eight days. […]
Robotic chair (video)
This robot (or human controlled) chair from the D’Andrea Group, falls apart and then puts itself back together. [via] – Link.
