Bluerain is a zillion blue LED installation based on a desktop computer running a QT app, a Make Controller (of course) and 98 x 16 LED cluster water-proof wall units running awesome TI LED PWM chips (TLC5941). Total number of LED: 23520. Total power: 50W. Levels of brightness: 4096. LED Colors: 1. BLUE. In its […]
We make money not art covers a series of biological art projects from the recent Interactivos? Garage Science workshop at MediaLab Prado. Andy Gracie’s Garage Laboratory uses homebrew magnetic field and radio wave generators and investigates their effects on the behavior of microbes found in urban environments – The project was using magnetic field data […]
Pull out your dusty nifty knitter, some surgical tubing, a small liquid pump, and you’ve got yourself this mesmerizing little “fluid sculpture“. I just keep watching it over and over, and thinking of new possibilities for shapes and patterns! Apparently the creators will be at Maker Faire in May; I’m looking forward to seeing it […]
From an item called DIY Dangerous Toy – The Universel Cycle Buddhist temple made from beer bottles Bicycle table I’m not ashamed to admit it: I’m a dude who crafts. I like altering books, journaling, papercraft, rubber stamping, mail art, making stickers, and… God help me for saying this … “scrapbooking” (tho not the sucky […]
You’ve heard of balloon animals. How about trashbag whales? Spotted on our MAKE Flickr pool. Bertrand, air whale.
Just in time for every prankster’s favorite holiday, Alex Schlegel made these chained up gems attached to this payphone, much like a giant Asian schoolgirl’s cell phone charm: I designed the faceted gems in Solidworks, printed out templates for each face using images I made in MATLAB, cut out each face from 18g. mild steel […]
Gamara bless the Japanese, that’s all I have to say about this pic. Gigantic Fire-Breathing Robot Babies Have Taken Over Roppongi
