Collaborate Disseminate
If you’re a frequent traveler on a public transit system, it can be helpful to know when the trains or buses are arriving and if there are any delays. We might reach for a tablet to mount on the wall, but that relies on keeping the OS, the software, and …read more
Continue reading Live Map of London Tube Created In PCB and Lights
Join us on Wednesday, July 1 at noon Pacific for the LED Art Hack Chat with Aaron Oppenheimer!
From the first time humans crawled into a cave with a bit of charcoal to sketch scenes from the world around them, artists have been searching for new media and new ways …read more
The Timecraft project by [Amy Zhao] and team members uses machine learning to figure out a way how an existing painting may have been originally been painted, stroke by stroke. In their paper titled ‘Painting Many Pasts: Synthesizing Time Lapse Videos of Paintings’, they describe how they trained a ML …read more
Continue reading Recreating Paintings By Teaching An AI To Paint
Having the tools needed to do a job is a powerful thing. Having the tools needed to make more tools for doing cool things is even better, though, and that’s where [Jiří Praus] took things with this 3D-printed jig for making his blooming tulip circuit sculpture.
If you haven’t seen …read more
Continue reading 3D-Printed Tools Make Circuit Sculpture a Little Easier
One of the most interesting streams through which we receive new projects to write about here at Hackaday comes from the intersection between technologists and artists. Those artists who straddle both disciplines bring creativity that those of us without their backgrounds can only dream of. The artist [Rosa Francesca] produced …read more
Continue reading Plot And Visualise Brain Data In An Artwork
In May of this year, [Erich Styger] shows his project called “60 Billion Lights” off to the world. Now he has published an update on the making of this impressive work of art. As a quick recap, “60 Billion Lights” is a canvas art piece, which has 60 dual shaft …read more
Continue reading A Look Behind The Canvas Of The “60 Billion Lights” Project
The artist Christo recently passed away at the age of 84. For decades, he and his wife Jeanne-Claude, who died in 2009, made headlines with their striking and provocative artworks, such as wrapping Germany’s Reichstag building in fabric and installing … Continue reading Big, bold and beautiful: The incredible art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude
One of the few positives to come of this pandemic is that the restrictive nature of scarcity can be a boon to creativity. Plus, the doom and gloom of it all is causing people to loosen up and do things they never felt free enough to do before in the …read more
Continue reading Remotely Navigate the Apocalypse in Mid-Century Style
One effect of China’s massive construction boom is the emptying of its villages as people from rural areas rush to the cities to find new opportunities. A recently-completed project aims to address this by giving an abandoned 900-year-old village a new… Continue reading Abandoned Chinese village transformed into arts center
Earrings have been a hackers’ target for electronic attachment for quite a while, but combining the needed components into a package small enough to wear in that finicky location is quite a challenge. If [Sawaiz Syed]’s Art Deco Earrings are anything to go by, ear computers have a bright …read more
Continue reading Flexible PCB Earrings Put the Art in Art Deco