Amazing animated optical illusions
Youtube user Brusspup made these animated optical illusions by carefully combining slices of different drawings, then sliding an image of vertical lines over the top.
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Shuttle replica and supplies looking for a home
Make: Online’s space correspondent, Rachel Hobson, points us to this article in Florida Today: After months of searching for a new home for a full-scale model of the space shuttle’s crew compartment, Chuck Ryan is beginning to accept the replica he spent almost 15 years building may soon be destroyed. He is now trying to […]
New in the Maker Shed: Puzzles in Wood book
Originally published in 1928, Puzzles in Wood: Simple Patterns for Creating 45 Classics, presents more than 40 unique puzzles to challenge the woodworker’s hands and mind. Projects include bewitching cubes, caged balls, intricate banks, locked links, and perplexing burrs.
New in the Maker Shed: Creative Kinetics
Artist, inventor, and longtime author Rodney Frost is known for wacky, whimsical woodworking books that encourage readers to experiment. With his newest book, Creative Kinetics, Making Mechanical Marvels in Wood, he provides an introduction to the wild and whimsical world of kinetic art–art that moves.
Playing music using Dominoes
Here’s a low-tech way to share some holiday joy. Jared Lyon used a bunch of dominoes and some strategically placed bells to play the song ‘Carol of the Bells’ as the dominoes fell down.
Piano that speaks!
By way of Alden Hart at HacDC comes this amazing computer-controlled analog piano that speaks, *almost* comprehensible English, when a frequency spectrum of a child reading the text of the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court is transferred to robot fingers that press the piano’s keys. Creepy. Cool. [Thanks, Alden!] Speaking Piano – Now […]
Amazing sound sculptures from motors & more
Zimoun‘s art makes use of motors and other machine hardware en masse to create some strange and quite elegant installations. [via EMSL]
