QC Co-Lab’s LED Matrix
Quad Cities Co-Lab used GE Color Effects Christmas lights and an Arduino to build their matrix. Also check out this build video.
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Arduino Mega Shield Tokyo Needlework Metro Map
I love it when embroidery floss and electronics mix, and artist Tomofumi Yoshida added another one of my favorite things to this piece: the Tokyo transit map! The little map is stitched on an Arduino Mega shield.
Apple II Beeptacular Spectacular at the Walker Art Center
The lovely folks of Machine Project are taking their show on the road. The road to Minneapolis. They will be conducting another “grand ‘musical’ experiment” this Friday from 1-5 pm at the Walker Art Center, creating a concert from as many Apple ][ computers as they can get their hands on. Bring yours and enjoy! […]
Drill Here to Destroy Hard Drive
Free, handy, download-and-print sticker from Randy Sarafan of F.A.T. Lab.
NXT Wall-E
Lego NXT Wall-E transformable fully self controlled, it uses Lego Mindstorms programming environment. The video shows the transformation which is quite similar to the original Wall-E. See the maker’s Picasa gallery showing build photos. Note that, in typical Mindstorms fashion, the actual transformation takes 4 minutes. [Via Inhabitots]
Making EL Wire Change Color
It’s not a dramatic color shift, but it turns out you can control the hue of EL wire over a narrow range by varying the frequency of the resonating driver circuit. dcroy (upper video) did it back in February using a 555, and Paul Stoffregen (lower video) unknowingly repeated the work recently, having noticed that a single fixed-frequency driver produced slightly different colors in two different lengths of wire.
Top 10: Robot Limbs
A selection of robotic limbs from the archives of MAKE.