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We feature a lot of fun projects with LEDs and lasers and all kinds of light effects going on. Most of these are very digital. However, there are a great …read more Continue reading Creating Beautiful Light Shows With Soap
The value of a mirror is in its clarity. If the reflection is cast by [danicakostic17]’s Uncooperative Mirror though, you’ll find anything but. It’s described as a useless machine, because …read more Continue reading The Uncooperative Mirror Will Not Help You
We’ve covered etch-a-sketch robots before, but usually they’re not quite as fast as [Every Flavor of Robot]’s “video” etch-a-sketch, capable of drawing a full portrait in as little as a …read more Continue reading Drawing Videos On An Etch-a-Sketch
A twenty-sided die (d20) is a common thing in tabletop gaming, and [kati]’s slightly sentient d20 is a PCB that not only delivers random results on demand, but responds to …read more Continue reading Slightly Sentient d20 Might Subtly Shift Your Rolls
[Kert Gartner]’s ASCII Aquarium turns a cheap yellow display (CYD) into a tiny simulated aquarium, complete with ASCII sea creatures each with their own behaviors. There’s all kinds of options …read more Continue reading Adorable ASCII Aquarium Lives On Your Desk
Emergent properties include examples like murmurations of starlings which can’t be predicted from looking at a single bird, weather which can’t be predicted by looking at a few air molecules, …read more Continue reading penPal, a Robotic Drawing Assistant
Self-similar images are rather common, which are images in which the same image is repeated on a smaller scale somewhere within the image that one is looking at, something which …read more Continue reading The Complex Transformations Underlying MC Escher’s Works
Odds are, if you like neon lights, you’re not thrilled with the LED faux-“neon” strips that are supposed to replace them. They’ve got their advantages, but the light quality of …read more Continue reading Bending Faux-Neon LEDs Make for Animations Glass Tubes Can’t Match
Some things have an undeniable appeal, and lo-fi, pixelated Game Boy-camera-like images are one of them. In service of this, [Raul Zanardo] created his handheld pixel camera that goes the …read more Continue reading Pixel Camera Puts Lo-Fi Images In The Palm Of Your Hand
Some projects take great care to tuck away wire hookups, but not [Roberto Alsina]’s Reloj V2 clock. This desktop clock makes a point of exposing all components and wiring as part …read more Continue reading LED Matrix Clock Proudly Shows Its Inner Wiring