Collaborate Disseminate
Flip disc displays can be quite a task to drive, what with having some sort of actuator mechanism for each and every dot in the display. [Zimm] has built an …read more Continue reading A Flip Disc Display That Does It Slow And Steady
For users of a certain age, fractal patterns and computers are nearly synonymous. Typing in BASIC programs and seeing the Mandelbrot set or other fractals slowly render on screen is …read more Continue reading Analog Optical Feedback Generates 4K Fractals With No Computer
Fluid simulations are one of the “killer apps” of high-performance computing, but if you can’t afford the performance, they can take a depressingly long time to run. Depending on your …read more Continue reading Reject Fluid Simulations, Return To Rheoscopic Fluid
Avian Visitors is a lovely project by [Teddy Warner] that uses a Raspberry Pi and microphone to keep track of which birds have been visiting your home, and creates a …read more Continue reading Track Bird Visitors With a Raspberry Pi and a USB Mic
We’ve always taken a certain childlike joy in seeing tiny things made big, and big things tiny. Evidently [Uncle Stem] is the same way, if this 7x sized 16×2 “LCD” …read more Continue reading Addressable LEDs Make Giant 16×2 Character Display
[Hans Scharler] came into a neat find recently—the playfield from a 1970s Atari Superman game. It’s the sort of thing that’s too nice to throw away, but isn’t really enough …read more Continue reading Scrap Pinball Parts Become Beautiful Wall Art
The combination of hardware required to make use of this project is specific enough that we imagine only a relatively limited number of readers will actually be able to try …read more Continue reading Dress Up Your YubiKey With This Web-Based Tool
You may or may not remember in some ancient chemistry class studying or even performing chromatography. The short definition is using media like paper or powder to separate a mixture. …read more Continue reading Chromatography as Art
The NOISFERATU is an open source generative textural sound synthesizer, or as creator [Robert Heel] puts it, “a sound designer’s dream and audiophile’s worst nightmare”. NOISEFERATU offers 45 different sound …read more Continue reading Bite Into Strange Sounds With NOISEFERATU
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