Fire-breathing robot dragon
Saphira, the mechanical fire-breathing dragon, was a huge hit at the Faire. She is the creation of high school students Alex Jacobson and Sam DeRose of Marin, CA, whose combined ages are less than 30.
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Evolutionary Art Competition @ GECCO 2010
Evolutionary Art Competition @ GECCO 2010 – Scott Draves, Electric Sheep is one of the organizers and one of my favorite artists! This competition invites conference participants to demonstrate that genetic and evolutionarycomputation can be applied to create impressive and provocative works of art. The competitionwill identify the best work, be it an image, a […]
Science-themed Tarot deck
Logan Austeja Daniel, Martin Azevedo, and biochemist/jeweler/entrepreneur Raven Hanna of Made With Molecules are the brains behind this beautiful deck of Tarot cards with scientific themes. Suits were commissioned from five different artists: Janelle Schneider (Wands), Kristy Whitehouse (Pentacles), Shari Arai DeBoer (Swords), Tammy Stellanova (Cups), and Kris Johnson Michiels (Major Arcana). The deck’s gonna be available for sale soon, but the exact date is TBA. You can sign up to be notified by e-mail here.
Ben Cowden’s “Wayward Calliope”
One of the highlights of our tour of the Maker Faire grounds last Thursday was this “Wayward Calliope” by artist Ben Cowden of Applied Kinetic Arts. Turn the crank, and a combined mechanical and pneumatic power transfer system activates a choir of slide whistles to produce a sound that is simultaneously beautiful, creepy, and hilarious. Somehow. It’s rather harder to appreciate in a noisy exhibit hall, so if you were at the Faire and saw, but couldn’t hear, be double-dog-sure to check the vid.
Glowbits: A tactile LED matrix
South-African-born artist Daniel Hirschmann’s matrix consists of LEDs mounted on motorized shafts that move and change colors either as programmed or through interaction with a person. Glowbits is a matrix of motorized pixels that physically move as their colors change. The result is an image with real depth and dimensionality. When Glowbits surfaces display images, […]
Transformer boxes decorated to look like buildings
German artist Evol decorates electrical boxes and planters with adhesive paper that he’s stenciled to look like miniature concrete tenements. When there are a whole bunch of these in one area it looks like a mini city! The project is called Plattenbauten, which means “prefab” in German. [via doorknob]
The Road to Maker Faire: Raven Hanna
Raven Hanna, here, of Made With Molecules. I’m a scientist-turned-artist and longtime maker involved in a number of creative science communication projects, including molecule-inspired jewelry and the project Science Tarot, which will have its own table next to the Made With Molecules’ table. This will be my second year exhibiting at the Maker Faire, and […]
