In this video and blog interview, pop-up book designers Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart show some of their secrets for creating truly impressive pop-up effects. Their cyclone pop-up, using a string and a dowel, for the Wonderful Wizard of Oz book, is amazing.
[Thanks to MAKE subscriber Brent, of Eightlines Creation, for sending this to us.]
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Thursday February 5th, 2009 12:10 PM
Categories: Craft, General | 7 Comments
MAKE subscriber S1axter, of myBitBox, has put together details on building a basic, filtered 5v power regulation unit based on the ubiquitous LM7805 voltage regulator. You can either build it out of a handful of parts you can get at your local electronics shack, or buy a little kit he’s put together.
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Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Thursday February 5th, 2009 11:34 AM
Categories: Electronics, Tools | 4 Comments
Joey deVilla has posted some closeup pictures of the Lisp Machine that he donated to HackLabTO:
The keyboard is bristling with modifier keys. Yes, we’ve all got shift and control, but most of us don’t have hyper, super, and meta keys. I have a guess as to what the network and local keys do.
HackLabTO’s Lisp Machine Keyboard
Posted by Brian Jepson | Thursday February 5th, 2009 10:56 AM
Categories: General | 4 Comments
Attention artists – 3rd Ward‘s Spring Solo open closes this Tuesday -
3rd Ward Spring Solo Show: A hunt for one artist with a groundbreaking voice and a hunger for exposure.
3rd Ward Wants You! Our 2009 Spring Solo Show will award one amazing artist with fame, fortune and an incredible Solo Show! This nationwide open call is open to artists working in all mediums – sculpture, photography, painting, printmaking, illustration, installation, graphic design, video, and more!Gawker Artists joins us again as a sponsor and this Spring’s Judging Panel includes: Janet Ozzard, Editor at New York Magazine, Liz Dimmitt, Curator at Gawker Artists and Jarrett Gregory, Curator at the New Museum.
The Selected Artist will be announced in 3rd Ward’s quarterly publication with a 2-page spread and will receive:
- $1,000 cash grant
- 1-month residency at 3rd Ward with FULL facility access
- A solo exhibition in 3rd Ward’s gallery, complete with a massive opening reception
- City-wide exposure
- Submit your best work now through February 11, 2009.
Posted by Collin Cunningham | Thursday February 5th, 2009 10:28 AM
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Make a glittering LED constellation jammed in resin. This is Part 1 of this two-week project.
Thanks go to Kris DeGraeve for the original article in Make: Volume 14.
To download The Cosmic Night Light MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes.
Check out the complete Cosmic Night Light article in MAKE: Volume 14 “Cosmic Night Light”
and you can see that in our digital edition.
Here is a link for the LED Art Kit shown in the beginning of the video.
Posted by kipkayvideos | Thursday February 5th, 2009 10:25 AM
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Make a glittering LED constellation jammed in resin. This is Part 1 of this two-week project.
Thanks go to Kris DeGraeve for the original article in Make: Volume 14.
View the PDF of this project and then pick up Make: Volume 14 here for other great projects
you can do over the weekend.
Posted by kipkayvideos | Thursday February 5th, 2009 10:19 AM
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These would make great Halloween decorations/projects! Check out the Death by LEGO photo set by monsterbrick, via Who Killed Bambi?
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Posted by Becky Stern | Thursday February 5th, 2009 10:13 AM
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Check out this really cool video by Alex Schlegel created using a really simple feedback loop with a webcam, computer, and projector (no extra graphics processing):
Video experimenting with the feedback-induced patterns a webcam creates when viewing its own feed projected onto a wall. I connected a 1080p digital projector to my laptop and projected the laptop’s display onto a wall (the image was about 6ft. across). Next I connected a cheap webcam to my laptop and positioned it facing the wall, roughly centered on the projection, approximately 5ft. away, and as high as I could without casting a shadow on the projection. I started the webcam’s test program (the webcam seems to refresh at about 10-15Hz), maximized the window, and then filmed the wall using a digital video camera placed on a small tripod on top of the projector. As I filmed I experimented with different modes of mouse movement (freehand, circle, figure-eight, zig-zag, and random). I used Windows API calls from a program I wrote in Visual Basic to control the automatic mouse movements.
Posted by Becky Stern | Thursday February 5th, 2009 10:02 AM
Categories: Art & Design | 2 Comments
MAKE will be at the New York Comic Con – February 6-8, 2009. If you want to meet up, we’ll be there on Friday for the fun starting around 1pm @make us on twitter or email me… Here’s our coverage and photos from last year…
New York Comic Con is the East Coast’s biggest and most exciting popular culture convention. Our show floor plays host to the latest and greatest in comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television. Our panels and autograph sessions give fans a chance to interact with their favorite creators. Our screening rooms feature sneak peeks at films and television shows months before they hit either big or small screens. And with dedicated professional hours, New York Comic Con is a market place, bringing together the major players in the entertainment industry. New York Comic Con is the second largest pop culture convention in America and the only one that takes place in the comic book, publishing, media, and licensing capital of the world — Gotham City.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday February 5th, 2009 9:25 AM
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Instructables user CIRnetwork writes:
In resource-limited areas worldwide, individuals with amputations may not be able to gain access to prosthetics devices due to a lack of the materials needed to fabricate them. This simple technique utilizes a 2-liter soda bottle to create below-the-elbow prosthesis suitable for a number of light duty activities.
Posted by Becky Stern | Thursday February 5th, 2009 6:56 AM
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From the MAKE Flickr pool
Aki modded an old joystick for wireless control using a pair of SparkFun RF link modules for connectivity. Custom boards with ATtiny2313 chips do the rest in code -
The transmitter polls all the buttons and directions all the time and there is a sleep timeout running all the time which is zeroed whenever a change in input state is detected. After roughly 10 seconds the transmitter turns off the power from the transmitter module to save energy and continues polling the inputs. If an input state change is detected the transmitter module is powered on again and the sleep timeout starts running. One datapacket is 4 bytes long (sync + receiver address + data + checksum) and the inputs take 6 bits from the data byte (2 buttons and 4 directions). The receiver checks that the received data is correct and by that it then pulls the right pins to ground.
Source code is available for download here – Wireless TAC-2
Posted by Collin Cunningham | Thursday February 5th, 2009 5:57 AM
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From the MAKE Flickr pool
MightyOhm’s WiFi radio project has is now ‘tunable’. The WL-520gU based digital radio uses analog control in the form of a basic linear potentiometer -
It turns out that this is mostly a software exercise, made simple by taking advantage of the analog to digital converter function of the Atmel ATmega168 AVR that is controlling the LCD display. The addition of the tuner control turns the display circuit into a very simple user interface. Turn the knob and the station changes. The position of the knob determines what station the radio is “tuned” to, and when combined with a calibrated scale it will make it easy to change to any one of the several streaming radio stations stored as presets (favorites?) in the router.
Very cool, perhaps a noise function could be triggered if the data connection is lost? – Building a Wifi radio Part 8
Posted by Collin Cunningham | Thursday February 5th, 2009 5:03 AM
Categories: Electronics | 1 Comment
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