Stepper Motor Makes Beats
Miguel Valenzuela created a series of computer controlled beats by placing a stepper motor on a guitar’s pickup.
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BeetBox Sets Standard for Vegetable-based Instruments
For the ITP classes Tech Crafts and Materials and Building Strategies, Scott Garner created the BeetBox, a tuber-based electronic drum machine. The instrument uses six beets connected to capacitive sensors to play samples on a Raspberry Pi. Here are the full details on the internals: Touch sensing is handled by an MPR121 Capacitive Touch Sensor […]
Ben Krasnow’s Homemade Electron Scanning Microscope and Liquid Lens Coming to Maker Faire
From his backyard lab in Redwood City (a stone’s throw away from Maker Faire — well, maybe with the aid of a trebuchet) Ben makes things that usually require a lot of money and sophisticated equipment: an electron scanning microscope, silica aerogel, and freeze-dried astronaut ice cream.
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories’ Digi-Comp II Mechanical Computer
Who knew evil mad scientists could be so nice? Lenore and Windell are two of the happiest makers I know.
Ayah Bdeir’s littleBits Amazing Electronic Kits
littleBits is a great way to introduce people to electronics prototyping without soldering or accidentally frying components.
Ristow’s “Face Forward” Robotic Sculpture
Taos, New Mexico-based artist Christian Ristow, veteran builder of robots, animatronics, and all things kinetic, creates provocative, interactive pieces like Hand of Man and Fledgling. One of his newest pieces, Face Forward, created for Burning Man 2011, is a 12-foot-tall robotic human face, whose major facial movements can be controlled by viewer participants. Each of […]
Featured Maker: Michele Banks
Washington, DC artist Michele Banks, aka Artologica, is a painter who, in her own words, “uses an old and often-disrespected medium, watercolor, to create pieces that are anything but old-fashioned.” Her works in Makers Market focus on biological and medical themes, particularly the microscopy of living cells. Shown above is Cell Division Blue 1, a […]
