HOW TO – Coin cutting
John writes – “Making a silver coin into a pendant – I use 1964 or earlier silver coins and removed all traces of the original design. I use worn junk-bin coins I find at a local coin shop.” – Link.
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Scratchcard Wallpaper
One-upping the wallpaper trend, London-based textile designer Linda Florence applies a silvery sheen of the type used on scratch-off lottery tickets to a floral pattern. With all of the joy of discovery minus inevitable disappointment over the losing odds, Florence’s design is a new foray into interactive décor. Contact her directly through her site for […]
Solvent transfers
DIY:Happy has a good round up of ways to do solvent transfers (pictured here one from a moleskine gallery)… – “Doing a solvent transfer is probably the quickest, easiest way to get an image onto a T-Shirt, Moleskine, or other surface. Like screen printing, the image is applied directly the surface. Unlike screen printing, this […]
Giant Atari 2600 joystick
Multiplayer Atari, using a giant joystick from artist Mary Flanagan… “Inviting users to play classic arcade games by collaboratively moving on and controlling a 9-foothigh joystick (modelled after the 1980 Atari 2600 one), Mary Flanagan highlights the spatial and social role of the interface. The joystick itself becomes a social sculpture and territory for inter-personal […]
Processing controlled LEDs
Dan writes “I’ve been hacking Processing and TinyOS. I cobbled a little teaser demo of processing controlling an array of LED’s on a TinyOs Mote: A straight forward animation, and webcam tracking.” – Link.
DIY mobile art projection
The Graffiti Research Lab, the Eyebeam OpenLab and Paul Notzold have a fun Instructable on mobile outdoor projection – “Outdoor digital projection in urban environments is a great method for getting your content up big before the eyes and in the minds of your fellow city inhabitants. This tutorial comes out of trial and error […]
Web based sun dial
A digital sun dial – “The sun.dial is an internet-based installation project that fosters a sense of shared global space and time. The principle system consists of twelve LCD displays suspended from an overhead apparatus in an outward-facing ring. This circular display is the hub of a world-wide input system. Each screen displays the information […]
