Billboards Converted To Swingsets
It’s called “Double Happiness.” From Paris architect Didier Faustino. [via Dude Craft]
Toys and Games
Top 10: Rube Goldberg Machines
Ever known somebody who makes things more complicated than they have to be?
Kinect 3D Modeler
Austrian Kinect hacker Sebastian Pirch from 3rD-EYE in Salzburg has built a 3D modeling system using a Microsoft Kinect controller and an Arduino. Using a pair of custom soft circuit gloves to provide a mouse click, Sebastian is able to model objects in mid air, in 3D, using gestures captured by the Kinect, which are then rendered with an LCD projector. It’s a little crude now, but he’ll probably be designing flying armored suits by this time next year.
Interactive Fountain Tracks Passersby
And, depending on how you position the nozzles, sprays them! More coolness from Gerry Chu, whose Kinect-based Motion Emotions I hit yesterday. Gerryโs fountain prototype has at least two Arduino Megas for brains.
Gaming Minis From Twist-Ties
Shown above is only the most recent work, using this technique, of Photobucket user ionustron, for whom it has been a lifelong hobby. Hereโs another:
Bot Blows Really Big Bubbles
I held off on โgiant,โ because, well, thereโs really big, and then thereโs giant. And, as cool as your Arduino-brained bubble blowing robot is, Instructables user zvizvi, the bubbles it blows are not truly giant IMNSHO. Check out zvizviโs and the other winning entries in Instructablesโ recent Microcontroller Contest.
Gyroid Magnetic Assembly Blocks
A work-in-progress from Thingiverse user searchresults. Each block has twelve 3mm supermagnets installed around its six edges, their polarities alternating so they will click together.
