Made in Japan

Made in Japan – Volume 28

Made in Japan – Volume 28

This week: Transformer Art Gallery, Making Characters from Individual Components, Asagaya’s Tanabata Festival: The Papier-mache Float Parade, Make a Cheap Digital Camera More Holga-Like, The Welding Detective Manga, Making Bags out of Shotengai Flags. Transformer Art Gallery Takara Tomy has sponsored an art exhibition of Transformer-inspired art entitled TransformArt. This exhibition includes development sketches for […]

Made in Japan – Volume 27

Made in Japan – Volume 27

This week: The Gossamer 1 Art Machine, Making Tombodama, Digital Camera Goggles, The Reduino, Styrofoam Dome Homes, The Ferrofluid Sculptures of Sachiko Kodama, DIY 3-color Projections, iPhone from Beads, Mosquito Repellant iPhone App. The Gossamer 1 Art Machine Moxuse demo’d this art/technology project at the latest EIZONE 2008 in Yokohama. With a canvas of paper, […]

Made in Japan – Volume 26

Made in Japan – Volume 26

This week: Clothespin Toys: IQlip = Descendant of Basamingar? Power Mac G3-style iPod Nano Cover, Scopedog Mecha, Original Gakken Bird Organ Compositions, Dorkbot Tokyo, The Effects of LED Eyes, Japanese Middle-Aged Men Fuel The Plastic Model Revival? Clothespin Toys: IQlip = Descendant of Basamingar? Undoubtedly inspired by clothespins, Kokuyo’s IQlip building blocks deviate from the […]

Made in Japan – Volume 25

Made in Japan – Volume 25

This week: The Pocket Art Studio, The Portative Organ, Robot Fish, Eye Glasses: Always Keep Your Eyes Open, The Air-Conditioned Shirt, Automatic Dessert Making Machine, Otona no Kagaku Synth, USB-Powered CD Fan, Always Make the Shot – Wastebasket Three-Pointer Hack, Gakken Announces 8mm Movie Camera, and Bamboo-Copter Slow-Mo. Pocket Art Studio As we all know, […]

Made in Japan – Volume 24

Made in Japan – Volume 24

This week: Time-lapse Video of Rice Paddy Art, Making Shocked Skeleton Photos, Self-Standing Gyro Crawler, Creative+Ecological Packaging in Japan, Giant Newspaper Gag, Akibarduino – The Akihabara-centric Arduino-compatible, “Pimped” Fixed-gears in Japan, Papercraft Houses of the World – Asia Edition, and a Cheap Earbud Amplifier. Time-lapse Video of Rice Paddy Art I posted a blurb about […]

Made in Japan – Volume 23

Made in Japan – Volume 23

This week: Making a Life-size Gummy Coke Bottle, Pentacom’s Toy Camera Simulator, The Raygun Project, New iPhone Apps from Made in Japan Faves, Cut Your Own Hair – Cleanup’s a Snap!, Smoking Sneaker Mods, What Happens if You Apply Electricity To…, The Sine Wave Orchestra. Making a Life-size Gummy Coke Bottle The adventurous Japanese at […]

Made in Japan – Volume 22

Made in Japan – Volume 22

This week: Ginger – the AVR-Based Gainer Clone, Homemade Gut Strings from Sausage Casing, Biodegradable Balloon Making in Rural Japan, Okinawa Treehouse Restaurant, Crab Feet – Audio to Video and Back Again, iPod Touch Cycling Computer, Shikisai’s Perception-Bending T-Shirts. Ginger – AVR-Based Gainer Clone From Morecal Lab, ginger is an AVR-based (ATmega88) version of the […]