Bruce Shapiro was recently featured in an short video by Cool Hunting. He’s a self taught hardware artist and has created some amazing projects exploring motion control, including the ‘egg plotter’, ‘3-axis router’ and ‘Pipedream I, II, and III’â€â€which draws…
Some pictures of The NYC Resistor meeting tonight. Dave’s hardware for the audio oscilloscope. We also had a great demo from Diana Eng of the blogginginmotion purse.
I couldn’t pass this post up. Virgin America is holding a special with Diggnation – buy one flight to anywhere they fly and get one free. You have to use the DIGGNATION promo code and you have to book by…
I recently had the opportunity to climb the mast at the new New York Times Headquarters. It’s a 120 foot climb above the 52nd floor of the new building. Check out the fun video, and special thanks to Bre Pettis…
Looking for some good sensors for a project? Try the SensorWiki. It’s a great collection of different sensors. From Inclinometers, Rotary potentiometers, Force-sensitive resistors (FSR) and other kinds of ‘ometers’.
Wired has a great post about Ann Smith, an artist who, as wired says; ‘transforms electronics and appliances destined for the dump into nifty gadgety animals’. Check out the post to see some of the pieces as stop motion animation.…
Above is an image from the ‘Diploma Project’ by André Huber and Roland Broennimann. They are students at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and Academy of Art and Design. They are working on a project called natebu (or…
Andrew Fentem has a video on his site of a very cool interactive LED cube. He doesn’t post any information about how the cube is made, but here is his ‘artist statement’: World’s first cubic touchscreen computer games platform (2007)…
The Evil Mad Scientists made a blinking LED pumpkin. pretty easy, and looks like fun.
I’m not really sure what this competition is all about, but it has something to do with LED’s and something to do with design. There are some really exciting concepts and artist descriptions on the site also. Interesting stuff. More…