What Everyone Needs: An Eight-Foot LED Light Staff
Hackaday.io blogger ‘Risknc’ updates his Light Staff prototype, much to the excitement of the LARPing community. It is a 8-foot staff filled with High Intensity LEDs that put on quite a show.
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How-To: 3D Printed UV Manicure Lamp
3D printing meets DIY beauty with this awesome UV manicure lamp project!
Sound Mirrors Echo Obsolete Military Technology as Art Installation
Before the invention of radar, the British military experimented with acoustic mirrors as a means of aircraft surveillance. Artist Tim Bruniges recreated these interactive objects in an interactive sound exhibition called “MIRRORS.”
The Automaphone: A Picture Scanning Synthesiser
Brian McNamara creates musical instruments. Generally he focuses on electronic instruments that make it easy and fun for pretty much anyone to play. The Automaphone is a fantastic example of that concept. Feed this simple and elegant looking hunk of wood any picture and it will convert it to sound. The internals will feed the […]
How the Makers at Nomiku Are Moving Manufacturing Into The Bay Area
This is a series that will document Nomiku’s journey into lean manufacturing in America through the conversations of the founding team: Lisa, Abe, and Bam. We will update the series as our adventure in building our high-tech device that lets people cook with the cloud continues. As we enter uncharted waters with unique challenges, these […]
The ChalkJET Writing Machine
“Way back” in 2009, students in the UC Berkley “ME 102” class came up with this excellent automatic chalk-spraying machine. It uses 8 cans of spray-chalk to spray the message of your choosing onto the sidewalk or street as you push it along. This device is controlled by two Arduino Duemilanove boards, which apparently base […]
Surplus Tank Yoke Becomes an Incredible Game Controller
What do you get when you combine surplus military hardware with a computer interface? In this case, probably the beefiest computer game controller you’ve ever seen made out of an old M1 Abrams training simulation’s turret yoke. This controller functions as a “twisty yoke,” as featured on the Star Wars arcade game from the 1980s. […]
