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Páraic McGloughlin turned man-made patterns into a high-speed kaleidoscope of earth. Continue reading This Trippy Google Earth Animation Shows All the Patterns Humans Make Around the World
Sometimes you have to switch a light. Maybe it’s an LED but sometimes it’s mains-powered. That’s not too hard, a transistor and a relay should do it. If you have to switch more lights, that’s not too bad either, as long as your microcontroller has enough free GPIOs. But, if you need to switch a large number of lights, like 256 of them, for example, you’re going to need something else.
[Jan]’s project didn’t switch quite that many lights, but 157 of them is still enough of a chore to need a creative solution so he decided to use a …read more
Derek Klingenberg’s “cow art” is a clever mix of math and cattle. Continue reading This Farmer Sent a Message to Tesla’s ‘Spaceman’ Using Cows
[smash_hand] had a clear goal: a big, featureless, white plastic disk with RGB LEDs concealed around its edge. So what is it? A big ornament that could glow any color or trippy mixture of colors one desires. It’s an object whose sole purpose is to be a frame for soft, glowing light patterns to admire. The disk can be controlled with a simple smartphone app that communicates over Bluetooth, allowing anyone (or in theory anything) to play with the display.
The disk is made from 1/4″ clear plastic, which [smash_hand] describes as plexiglass, but might be acrylic or …read more
Continue reading RGB Disk Goes Interactive with Bluetooth; Shows Impressive Plastic Work
Benjamin Von Wong wants to raise awareness about e-waste with his hyperreal sculptures. Continue reading Check Out These Amazing Sculptures Made From 4,000 Pounds of Old Electronics
“Hello, we’re from the internet” is an art project that took over the MoMA’s Jackson Pollock room without permission. Continue reading Internet Artists Invaded the MoMA With a Guerrilla Augmented Reality Exhibit
This is an older project, but the electromechanical solution used to create this giant, staring eyeball is worth a peek. [Richard] and [Anton] needed a big, unblinking eyeball that could look in any direction and their solution even provides an adjustable pupil and iris size. Making the pupil dilate or contract on demand is a really nice feature, as well.
The huge fabric sphere is lit from the inside with a light bulb at the center, and the iris and pupil mechanism orbit the bulb like parts of an orrery. By keeping the bulb in the center and orbiting the …read more
Continue reading Behold the Giant Eye’s Orrery-Like Iris and Pupil Mechanism
Printed circuit boards have never been cheaper or easier to make. We’re not that far removed from a time where, if you wanted a printed circuit board, your best and cheapest option would be to download some proprietary software from a board house, use their terrible tool, and send your board off to be manufactured. A few copies of a 5x5cm board would cost $200. Now, anyone can use free (as in beer, if not speech) software, whip up a board, and get a beautifully printed circuit board for five dollars. It has never been easier to make a printed …read more
Continue reading Successful Experiments In Multicolor Circuit Boards
“I definitely got my 27-footer directly thanks to the major rise in Rare Pepe and Pepe Cash price.” Continue reading This Guy Lives on a Yacht He Bought With Money He Made Selling ‘Pepe Cash’
Volume is a new experimental project from artists Or Fleisher and Shirin Anlen. Continue reading Cue Up the ‘Pulp Fiction’ Dance Scene: This App 3D Projects 2D Movies in Your Living Room