Laser-cut skeleton
Thingiverse user powerpants shares plans for making the above seen corrugated skeleton on a laser cutter. Definite cute addition to any desktop in need of cool.
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Over 100 games… on cupcakes!
There was (is) a cupcake fad going around, I’m not really a cupcake person, but I really like all of these… The maker writes – Every year, we throw a big, game party to ring in the new year. This year (2010) is our house’s 100-year birthday, so we celebrated with cupcakes… …and the cupcakes […]
Bill Gurstelle’s article on DIY in The Atlantic
MAKE contributor Bill Gurstelle has an awesome article in the latest issue of The Atlantic about DIY, Arduino and art: For a few dollars, creative and motivated individuals–rather than just corporations or institutions–can make highly intelligent tools, perfectly customized for a particular need. …large artistic installations used to require multiple programmers and engineers. But now […]
Glow-in-the-dark record player display
This light sculpture by German multimedia design collective lab binaer may look like a persistence of vision (POV) display at first glance, but in fact works on a very different principle. It’s built from a record player, and the turntable has been treated with a phosphorescent pigment. Messages are printed on the pigment by an array of bright lights on the tone arm, and slowly fade to black as the phosphorescence wanes. It’s titled »Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod« or “Death calls the tune.”
Creating music with light bulbs
Michael Vorfeld creates sound installations using the sound that light bulbs make when they are turned on and off in a controlled manner.
Wooden car burns wooden fuel, travels Europe
Artist, traveller, & inventor Joost Conijn spent the better part of a year building his own very custom automobile – almost entirely from wood. And what more fitting way to power such a vehicle, than with an onboard wood-burning stove! You might assume such a novel machine wasn’t intended for any lengthy excursions, but in […]
Vintage typewriter turned to kinetic art
From the MAKE Flickr pool Rob Cruickshank repurposed the spherical printhead from an old IBM Selectric typewriter for use in a new gallery installation. Under strobed illumination, the Selectric’s ‘typeball‘ certainly is hypnotic – beautiful, in a sort of William S. Burroughs way. Rob’s kinetic sculpture will be on viewable at Toronto’s Fly Gallery until […]
