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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
The tale of the Microsoft Xbox Kinect is one of those sad situations where a great product was used in an application that turned out to be a bit of …read more Continue reading The Strange Afterlife of the Xbox Kinect
Typically, if you’re shooting 35 mm film, you’re using it in an old point-and-shoot or maybe a nice SLR. You might even make some sizeable prints if you take a …read more Continue reading Using Four Rolls Of Film To Make One Big Photo
Chalk is fun to draw with, and some people even get really good at using it to make art on the sidewalk. If you don’t like tediously developing such skills, …read more Continue reading Automating The Process Of Drawing With Chalk
If you’re looking to add a pop of glowing whimsy to your workspace, check out this vibrant jiggly desk toy by [thzinc], who couldn’t resist the allure of Adafruit’s NOODS …read more Continue reading The Jell-O Glow Tensegrity Toy You Didn’t Know You Needed
You might not have noticed if you’re not a digital artist, but most painting and image apps still get color mixing wrong. As we all learned in kindergarten, blue paint …read more Continue reading Digital Paint Mixing Has Been Greatly Improved With 1930s Math
Occasionally, we get a tip for a project that is so compelling that we just have to write it up despite lacking details on how and why it was built. …read more Continue reading Cool Kinetic Sculpture Has Tooling Secrets to Share
Ink stamps can be fun to make and use, and 3D printers are uniquely positioned to create quality stamps of all kinds with just a little care. As with most …read more Continue reading 3D Print Stamps, and Ink Stuff to Your Heart’s Content With These Tips
A research project shows that it’s possible to create complex single-piece lenticular objects, or objects that have lenticular lenses built directly into them. The result is a thing whose appearance …read more Continue reading Embedding Lenticular Lenses Into 3D Prints
Generally, the projects featured on Hackaday actually do something. We won’t go as far as to say they are practical creations, but they usually have some kind of function other than …read more Continue reading Light Brite Turned Sci-Fi Console on the Cheap