LED Ghosties
Like LED Throwies but more for halloween, these guys haunted the Evil Mad Science table at Maker Faire Austin: Learn how to build one of these netherworldly light emitters here!
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Making Austin Weird: LED Art Kits
From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I’ll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! From the creator of Blinkybug, here’s a beautiful new kit debuting at Maker Faire Austin: I’ll have these new LED Art Kits ready for the upcoming […]
Making Austin Weird: Ambient LED Thing
From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I’ll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! Nick Petraniec’s appropriately-named ambient LED thing is an artful use of LEDs with fades to create blue-riffic ambiance. Here’s a 2×1 inch prototype: Check out the […]
Making Austin Weird: LED Bling
From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I’ll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! You know you’ve got a geektastic event when even the fashion accessories start sporting LEDs. From Jared’s project page at Inventgeek: With the maker faire this […]
Light drawing tutorial
We pointed out this great Instructable on making LED light drawing pens a while back. Stuart and Lori have a really neat tutorial about light drawing on their site, LightDoodles. (I’ve always loved this picture of Picasso.) Light doodling or light drawing can be described as the simple act of capturing the trace of a […]
Blinkybugs go out exploring
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Warpcat posted these vibrant images of his Blinkybugs in action – venturing into the unknown wilds of the kitchen table. Kits these days, they grow up so fast. – Blinky Bugs on Flickr In the Maker Shed: Blinkybug Kit