This a rad, a Belgian Star Wards fan, Benoît Lambert got permission (and made) a Darth Vader hot air balloon! Lucasfilm gave its approval for Lambert to have the balloon built with his own funds, using one of the most recognizable characters in cinema, as long as the balloon was not used for commercial pursuits. […]
A bunch of HAM radio folks bought and restored the 1968 Apollo com dish – A chance reading of a “for sale” advertisement in a weekly newspaper has launched a group of 30 space history buffs on a mission to save the 30-meter Jamesburg AT&T/Comsat satellite dish about an hour from Monterey, Calif. The dish […]
Spluch writes in – Dutch artist Edwin Zwakman produces large-scale photographs by painstakingly reconstructing objects and landscapes from memory! The pylon pictured above is made from approximately 400 pieces of copper soldered together. Each cable is made from vinyl, and cotton wool is used in background. CR Blog » Blog Archive » Remodelling the World […]
Maxwell writes – Gerald and I worked together for several years in the video games industry, and to this day despite a career change, he retains a strong passion for gaming. So much so that he had a custom cabinet built in the same style as a Japanese arcade head-to-head setup… Hardcore Gaming Entertainment System […]
Chris writes – This project is part of an art installation currently running at James Madison University’s artWorks gallery in Harrisonburg, VA. The ‘Motor Garden’ uses an Intel PC camera and Processing to trigger a set of 8 motors connected through several H bridges to an Arduino microcontroller. The camera is mounted near the ceiling […]
GarageGeeks have a ton of amazing projects: Guitar Heronoid (we covered this one previously), Mototank, CPod, Real Pac-Man, O-Re-Ly, Geek-o-meter and many many more… Pictured here, MotoTank! Take two motorcyles, cut them in two and connect them to a wheel. What do you get?? A tank! Each (half) motorcyle is completely independant with its own […]
Sachiko Kodama & Yasushi Miyajima created these amazing music-synced ferrofluid sculptures- “Morpho Towers–Two Standing Spirals” is an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold ferrofluid. When the music starts, the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened. Spikes of […]
