Benedetta Piantella Simeonidis and Lesley Flanigan “Ravezooka” – “The Ravezooka is a musical weapon that shoots a wide range of powerful “hardcore” sounds based on your target’s distance from the instrument. Hardware: Arduino, Ultrasonic Range Sensor, Infrared Proximity Sensor, Luxeon LED, amplifier, laptop computer Sound: Resembles an analog synthesizer manipulating sine wave frequencies with the […]
Clive makes amazing insects, he writes – “I enjoy creating artistic and realistic flies, which are not designed primarily for fishing, just having fun trying to imitate insects and striving to make them look as alive as possible. Some of these flies have been acquired by collectors and placed on display, others used for product […]
Created for Burning Man 2006 by Industrialus Design, this Ridable Mechanospider is freaking amazing, check out the video of it in action! [via] – Link. Related: Autotelematic spider bots (photos) – Link. Spider-wiper (Giant automated spider) – Link. Mechanical spiders! – Link.
Last year we covered the auction for the homemade “Death Star” and now some build photos have surfaced, check’em out… – [via] Link. Related: Death Star Home Cinema Subwoofer – Link.
Retro thing points to the history and more on the Tinkertoy computer, capable of playing tic-tac-toe – “A Tinkertoy framework called the read head clicks and clacks its way down the front of the monolith At some point the clicking mysteriously stops; a “core piece” within the framework spins and then with a satisfying “‘kathunk’ […]
Alee_anne writes – “This year AWESOME ARTS Australia invited 10 communities throughout regional and remote Western Australia to participate in an engaging and fun project, using art as a context for equitable and productive exchange. Bike Lab uses a purpose built, self-contained kit featuring bicycle parts reinvented as enormous meccano-like components, with computer cut plates […]
Timbuktu Chronicles writes – “Sunny Steveson fabricated a self freezing system, he used an old 52 British thermal unit (BTU) air conditioner and tubes that he passed through the concrete walls to enter the freezing room. The air conditioner and the room get electricity from a 6KVA generator…The process takes 10 to 12 hours to […]
