This is crazy – “…For the Biennale, Gormley has shipped out his Asian Field, an installation of 180,000 hand-sized clay figurines. Three hundred and fifty villagers in southern China individually crafted the figurines in just five days from more than 100 tonnes of red clay. Together, the figurines form a vast sea of bodies that […]
Ben Fry dumped the ROMs of old NES cartridges and made these cool looking posters – “Any piece of executable code is also commingled with data, ranging from simple sentences of text for error messages to entire sets of graphics for the application. In older cartridge-based console games, the images for each of the small […]
Usually we have a few Etch-a-Sketch projects with some robot controlling it or DJ interface, but here’s an incredible gallery of sketches made on an Etch-a-Sketch from artist George Vlosich III… [via] – Link. Related: Robots, computers and DJs Etch-a-sketches – Link.
Max (pictured here) is learning how to solder with the night popper robot kit, if you’re looking to teach your little Makers at home soldering and electronics, might be a good one to check out. Keep up the good work Max! – “The Night Popper waits until it gets dark and then it starts its […]
ThePhoton’s Nixie clock that we have followed over the last few weeks is done done done, nice work! – “After nearly three months since the beginning of the project the clock is complete. It uses four GNP-17A tubes for the main hours and minutes display, and two IN-16 tubes for the seconds. The case is […]
Doc writes – “This man has done some amazing yo-yo projects in the past, including molding a leather yo-yo, and making yo-yos out of old yo-yo string, but in the linked project he took scraps of fabric and molded them into yo-yos. Damn, I’d love to have an argyle yo-yo.” – Link.
Judith Fegerl’s haie raising ceramic sphere – “20cm long human hair is embedded into the ceramic sphere. The object is charged by a high voltage generator (about 120-200kVolts) and the embedded hair is standing upwards due to the electromagnetic field. Rhythmical it slowly charges and discharges.” [via] – Link.
