San Francisco is Crafty
Leslie from Feisty Elle has taken inspiration from Craftypod‘s Sister Diane and created a Google Map highlighting all that’s crafty in her neck of the woods: San Francisco. Link.
Technology
Concrete Crickets NPR Story
Artist Michael Dory is still making his “Concrete Crickets,” these little electronic devices implanted in smushed cups and cans, and NPR has done an audio story on him and this form of streetcorner graffiti. – [via] Link. Related: Concrete Crickets on MAKE – Link.
Steppo
Steppo is a children’s game where brightly colored wireless puzzle-piece-shaped stompable pads are rearranged to stomp out music and other scenarios. It was created as part of the Interaction Design Hands On Course at the Holon Institute of Technology in Israel. Their documentation is great. – [via] Link.
LillyPad Arduino
Phil @ MAKE writes: LilyPad is a wearable e-textile technology developed by Leah Buechley and cooperatively designed by Leah and SparkFun. Each LilyPad was creatively designed to have large connecting pads to allow them to be sewn into clothing. Various input, output, power, and sensor boards are available. They’re even washable! Leah’s a maven. – […]
SensorBib Upright Bass Augmentation
Spencer Russell created a “sleeve” for his upright bass to house electronic sensors which detect his position relative to the instrument. The sensors use an Arduino board to communicate with a computer running PD (PureData) to translate the sensor information into sound. He used Blender and QCad to make a 3D model of his bass […]
Human Flip Book
Erbert and Gerbert’s Subs and Clubs has made this incredibly labor-intensive commercial. It’s a “flipbook,” or stop-motion animation using t-shirts as the individual frames. The site has a great making-of video, too, that shows just how much work went into making this animation. [via] Link.
Self-Balancing Skateboard
A friend saw this cruising around the Arizona State campus: Chris Coleman, a sculptor, has made a self-balancing one-wheeled skateboard based on Ben Smither’s design. He fabbed the metal frame himself, used an Arduino microcontroller, and published his code. Incredible; great job! Self-balancing one-wheeled skateboard – Link. Related: Homemade balancing one-wheeled scooter on MAKE – […]
