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Eggsellent

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Nov 292007
 

egg hardware

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’—which draws in bubbles. He works with motors, steel, eggs, bubbles (my personal favorite), sand and many more materials. Shapiro also teaches a 10 day class called ‘From Bits, To Bites, To Bots‘ at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Maybe next time he’s in NY we can ask him to do some demos for the NYC Resistor Group?
Check out some of his projects at The Art of Motion Control and the Cool Hunting Video.

Geeks Get Deals Too

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Nov 292007
 
Virgin America Mood Lighting

Virgin America Mood Lighting
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 December 7th… but what a deal!

SensorWiki

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Nov 072007
 

sensor

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’.

Recycle-a-robot

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Nov 062007
 

horsebot

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. It doesn’t look like these are actual working, moving bots, but I’m sure with a little technical prowess, they could be. Either way they are very creative.

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Nov 032007
 

lightsensor

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 at least that’s the name of the blog). It’s an idea that Bre and I have talked about before, and is pretty impressive to see in action. From what I can tell there are 3 LEDs for each ‘pixel’ that sense when there is something blocking the light and then activates the LEDs. If you watch this video you can see it in action. I couldn’t find any links to the code but they did post the schematic and pcb (pictured below), which although not too complicated, looks pretty time consuming to wire up.

circuit

LED Cube Taken to Another Level

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Oct 232007
 

ledcube

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)

Featuring a unique ultra-bright (even in daylight) full-colour cubic screen and a unique cubic multitouch touchscreen technology (patent pending) this games platform has been programmed to implement various multi-dimensional games, puzzles, and lighting effects. This object will shortly be for sale in a limited edition from Kinetica Museum, the UK’s electronic art museum.

The Bright LED Competition

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Oct 172007
 

LEDs

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 info here.

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