This Music Played On Pencil Strokes Is Art
Listen closely, and you can hear notes in every stroke. Continue reading This Music Played On Pencil Strokes Is Art
Tag Archives: Art
Flowing Light Art Inspired By Plankton
With today’s technology, art can be taken in directions that have never before been possible. Taking advantage of this, [teamlab] — an art collective from Japan — have unveiled an art installation that integrates the attendee into the spectacle. In the dark room of the piece ‘Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement,‘ you are the brush that paints the flowing display.
Inspired by the movement of ocean plankton, this borrows your movement to create tapestries of light with mirrored walls to aggrandize the effect. As attendees walk about the room, their movements are tracked and translated into flowing patterns …read more
Monster Otters, Motörhead Crocs, and Zuul: The Best Paleo Art of 2017
As chosen by an artist who draws dinosaurs for a living. Continue reading Monster Otters, Motörhead Crocs, and Zuul: The Best Paleo Art of 2017
Art Eavesdrops on Life and Pagers
Before cell phones, pagers were the way to communicate on the go. At first, they were almost a status symbol. Eventually, they became the mark of someone who couldn’t or wouldn’t carry a cell phone. However, apparently, there are still some users that clutch their pagers with a death grip, including medical professionals. In an art project called HolyPager, [Brannon Dorsey] intercepted all the pager messages in a city and printed them on a few old-style roll printers. The results were a little surprising. You can check out the video below.
Almost all the pages were medical and many of …read more
Generate Random Numbers The Hard Way
Your job is to create a random number generator.
Your device starts with a speaker and a membrane. On this membrane will sit a handful of small, marble-size copper balls. An audio source feeds the speaker and causes the balls to bounce to and fro. If a ball bounces high enough, it will gain the opportunity to travel down one of seven copper tubes. Optical sensors in each of the tubes detect the ball and feed data to an Ardunio Mega. When the ball reaches the end of the tube, a robotic hand will take the ball and put it …read more
Mike Harrison at the Superconference: Flying LCD Pixels
Mike Harrison, perhaps better known to us as the titular Mike of YouTube channel mikeselectricstuff, is a hardware hacking genius. He’s the man behind this year’s Superconference badge, and his hacks and teardowns have graced our pages many times. The best thing about Mike is that his day job is designing implausibly cool one-off hardware for large-scale art installations. His customers are largely artists, which means that they just don’t care about the tech as long as it works. So when he gets together with a bunch of like-minded hacker types, he’s got a lot of pent-up technical details that …read more
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Meet the Artists Who’ve Dedicated Themselves to MS Paint
A small group of artists made the free art tool their medium of choice, for one of them it’s even become a career. Continue reading Meet the Artists Who’ve Dedicated Themselves to MS Paint
Joe Kim: Where Technology and Art Collide
The rewards of being a writer for Hackaday are many, but aside from the obvious perks like the secret Hackaday handshake and admission to the private writer’s washroom, having the opportunity to write original content articles is probably the best part of the job. It gets even better, though, because after you submit an article, you’ll eventually get an email from Supplyframe Art Director Joe Kim with a Dropbox link to the original art he has created to accompany your piece. No matter where I am when that email comes in, I click on the link immediately, eager to see …read more
AsciiCam: Make ASCII Art with your Phone
We admit it, we have a nostalgic soft spot for ASCII Art. Pictures made form characters, printed on an old-fashioned line printer. They’ve been a hacker standby since the 1960’s. Times have moved on though. These days we’re all carrying supercomputers in our pockets. Why not use them to create more great ASCII art? That’s exactly what [Brian Nenninger] did with AsciiCam. AsciiCam lets you use your Android phone’s camera to create ASCII images.
Using the software is simple. Just launch it and you’re greeted with an ASCII preview of the camera image. Users can select from a 16 color …read more
Do We All See the Woman Holding an iPhone in This 1860 Painting?
A closer look at “The Expected One,” a panting by 19th century Austrian artist Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. Continue reading Do We All See the Woman Holding an iPhone in This 1860 Painting?