“Judy Castro doesn’t have a background in engineering. But with Arduino, she doesn’t need one to make her sculptures move, light up or breathe fire. The San Francisco artist uses the microcontroller and software program to create interactive works of art — something she once might have paid an electrical engineer thousands of dollars to do.”…
The last time I was excited about a belt buckle, I had found one with old-timey CB radio lingo embossed on the front. Fast-forward a few years and now you’re able to let everybody know your 10-4 with this sci-fi accented iPhone 4 case that doubles as a belt buckle.
I’m a minimalist by nature, which is what attracted me to this “no-case” from My Open PC in the first place. I have often toyed with the idea of designing something similar, myself – just a couple of panels with the bare-minimum cutouts to meet the ATX specification. While, over the long run, I think there are good reasons to keep a PC’s guts inside a hard case, in the short term, an open fixture like this has a lot to recommend it, for instance as a test fixture for experimenting with different hardware configurations.
14-year-old Australian maker Lochie Ferrier bought an Airwick automatic air freshener and after its overpriced scent cartridge died, it sat around until Lochie realized it has a big ole PIR on the front. He hooked up an Arduino and proto shield and set it to play the Mario theme when the PIR detects movement.
Sparkle Labs’ Discover Electronics Kit is back in the Maker Shed and better than ever. New components, documentation, and an accompanying online video course will have you building projects and reading schematics in no time. Everything you need to make a light detector, led flasher, noise maker and more is right in the box.
Andy Cavatora and friends built these gravity harps for a Björk concert currently playing in the U.K. It looks like each pendulum has a servo-controlled rotation system that changes what note gets plunked at the pendulum’s nadir.
If you like to ride your bike while listening to music on your iPhone, you’ll find the Horn Bike from Fruitshop right up your alley. This passive amplifier built into an iPhone 4 case easily mounts to your handlebars for hands-free and earbud-free listening. And since it’s passive, you won’t annoy the people you share the road with.
