Collaborate Disseminate
We hackers just can’t get enough of sorters for confections like Skittles and M&Ms, the latter clearly being the superior candy in terms of both sorting and snackability. Sorting isn’t just about taking a hopper of every color and making neat monochromatic piles, though. [JohnO3] noticed that all those colorful …read more
Continue reading Paint the Rainbow with this Skittle-Dropping Pixel Art Robot
Stickers belong on laptops. That’s not just because all developers are issued a 2015 MacBook Pro at birth to zealously hold and cherish for the rest of their careers, and the vast uniformity of laptop models in the workplace makes each individual’s laptop indistinguishable from anyone else’s. No, stickers belong …read more
Art installations are an interesting business, which more and more often tend to include electronic or mechanical aspects to their creation. Compared to more mainstream engineering, things in this space are often done quite a bit differently. [Jan Enning-Kleinejan] worked on an installation called Prendre la parole, and shared the …read more
Continue reading Lessons Learned From An Art Installation Build
Bjarke Ingels Group, in association with Freaks Architecture, recently completed a large new cultural center in Bordeaux, France. As you’d expect from a firm with BIG’s pedigree, there are several interesting aspects of the design, including a sheltered outdoor space for socializing called the “urban living room” and a “periscope” that allows diners in a restaurant to gaze upon the people outside, and vice-versa.
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Continue Reading BIG’s new cultural center features “periscope” for people-watching
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Continue reading BIG's new cultural center features "periscope" for people-watching
A work of art is appreciated for its own sake and we will never tire of seeing stunning circuits from microscopic dead-bugs to ornate brass sculptures. We also adore projects that share the tricks to use in our own work. Such is the case with [Jiří Praus] who made some …read more
A couple of years ago, architecture and design firm Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) unveiled Paint By Drone, a system that utilizes quadcopters to spray-paint artistic graffiti onto outdoor walls. Well, the tech has now been used to create a crow… Continue reading Swarm of drones spray-paints crowdsourced graffiti mural
It doesn’t seem as though bending wire would be much of a chore, but when you’re making art from your circuits, it can be everything. Just the right angle in just the right place can make the difference between a circuit sculpture that draws gasps and one that’s only “Meh.” …read more
Continue reading Wire Bender Aims to Take Circuit Sculptures To The Next Level
If you happen to be in the Netherlands in the next few months you may be interested in dropping into an unusual art exhibition.
From Friday 5 July until 10 November, you’ll be able to check out “Malware: Symptoms of Viral Infection” a… Continue reading Malware makes an exhibition of itself
In 2019, using AI to evaluate artwork is finally more productive than foolish. We all hope that someday soon our Roomba will judge our living habits and give unsolicited advice on how we could spruce things up with a few pictures and some natural light. There is already an extensive …read more
We’ve all had that surreal experience of looking down out of the window from a plane and suddenly seeing familiar environments from completely new and strange perspectives. This gallery features the work of several photographers who turn larg… Continue reading Gallery: Aerial photography turns large-scale farming into abstract art