Collaborate Disseminate
Pianos use little hammers striking taut strings to make tones. The Mellotron used lots of individual tape mechanisms. Meanwhile, the Trans-Harmonium from [Emily Francisco] uses an altogether more curious method …read more Continue reading The Trans-Harmonium is a Strange Kind of Radio-Musical Instrument
There is no shortage of companies on the Internet willing to sell you expensive glowing things to stick on your walls. Many hackers prefer to make their own however, and …read more Continue reading LED Art Project Is Geometrically Beautiful
It is one thing to make an artistic steampunk display. But [CapeGeek] added an Arduino to make the display come alive. The display has plenty of tubes and wires. The …read more Continue reading SteamPunk Factory Comes to Life with an Arduino
Stringing is when a 3D printer’s hot end moves through open air and drags a wisp of melted plastic along with it. This is normally undesirable, but has in the …read more Continue reading Intentional Filament Stringing Helps Santa Soar
[Daniel Geng] and others have an interesting system of generating multi-view optical illusions, or visual anagrams. Such images have more than one “correct” view and visual interpretation. What’s more, there …read more Continue reading Making Visual Anagrams, With Help From Machine Learning
When it comes to novelty typefaces there is no shortage of weird and wonderful fonts to be found when you have finally tired of Comic Sans. Everything from bananas forming …read more Continue reading Finally! A Typeface For Hardware People
In the world of digital art, distinguishing between AI-generated and human-made creations has become a significant challenge. Almost overnight, tool sets for generating AI artworks became commonly available to the …read more Continue reading How Do You Prove an AI Didn’t Make Your Art?
Mother Nature is often a cruel mistress, but what can you do? You’ve got to make the best of what she gives you. This lovely little light was born from …read more Continue reading Agate Light Twinkles Just Right
[Jenny List] has been reverse-engineering and redesigning the Single8 home movie film cartridge for the modern age, to breathe life into abandoned cine cameras. One of the frustrating things about …read more Continue reading Re-Inventing The Single 8 Home Movie Format
Necklaces aren’t often very high-tech, mostly because of the abuse they have to go through being worn. This was obviously a problem that needed solving, so [Matt Venn] decided to …read more Continue reading Increase Your Blinkenlights With This Silicon Wafer Necklace