Collaborate Disseminate
When it comes to hacks, the best ones go to extremes. Either beautiful in their simplicity, or magnificent in their excess. And, well, today’s hack is the latter: excessive. [HTX …read more Continue reading Building an Assembly Line for Origami Pigeons
AI art is controversial, to say the least, but usually when talking about “AI Art”, one is talking about diffusion models. This unsettling artpeice called “Latent Reflection” by [Rootkid] (video …read more Continue reading AI Art Installation Swaps Diffusion for Reflection
Plywood is an interesting material: made up of many layers of thin wood plys, it can be built up into elegantly curved shapes. Do you need to limit it to …read more Continue reading LED Layer Makes Plywood Glow
Electronics-based art installations are often fleeting and specific things that only a select few people who are in the right place or time get to experience before they are lost to …read more Continue reading Rebooting An 1973 Art Installation Running On A Nova
Every time we end up talking about 3D printers, Al Williams starts off on how bad he is in a machine shop. I’m absolutely sure that he’s exaggerating, but the …read more Continue reading “Man and Machine” vs “Man vs Machine”
Alvin Lucier was an American experimental composer whose compositions were arguably as much science experiments as they were music. The piece he is best known for, I Am Sitting in …read more Continue reading Posthumous Composition Being Performed by the Composer
Getting a look at the internals of a garden variety “wall wart” isn’t the sort of thing that’s likely to excite the average Hackaday reader. You’ve probably cracked one open …read more Continue reading The Lowly Wall Wart Laid Bare
We ran a story about a wall-mounted plotter bot this week, Mural. It’s a simple, but very well implemented, take on a theme that we’ve seen over and over again …read more Continue reading Contagious Ideas
[Niklas Roy] obviously had a great time building this generative art cabinet that puts you in the role of the curator – ever-changing images show on the screen, but it’s …read more Continue reading Generative Art Machine Does it One Euro at a Time
There’s a classic grade school science experiment that involves extracting juice from red cabbage leaves and using it as a pH indicator. It relies on anthocyanins, pigmented compounds that give …read more Continue reading Chemistry Meets Mechatronics in This Engaging Art Piece