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August 20, 2007
Cucumber robotic hand
Remember those edible robots we posted up? Here's another, a vegetable based giant cucumber robot hand!- Link.
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Aug 20, 2007 01:00 AM
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August 19, 2007
Hair art
Wenda Gu's "united nations: united colours" made from 7 or so miles of hair...
...artist Wenda Gu's latest installation provokes aren't because of its size, but its contents: 420 pounds of human hair. A viewer's first impulses are to lean forward and scrutinize the swirling, flattened locks; stealthily sniff (it doesn't smell); and fight the urge to touch it -- and perhaps quickly recoil.Hair Art Show Fascinates, Disgusts - Link.Hair for the 80-foot-by-13-foot banner was collected over several months last year from 42,000 haircuts of Dartmouth students, faculty, staff and local residents in Hanover. It was shipped to China, where workers in Gu's Shanghai studio dyed and shaped the locks into paper-thin panels held together by a film of Elmer's glue and tied together with twine. It and a second work, ''united nations: united colors,'' displayed in another part of the library are the latest installations in Gu's worldwide ''united nations'' project, begun in 1993 and all made from human hair.
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Related:
- Chiengora Chic - Handspinning Dog Hair - Link.
- Panda painted onto single hair - Link.
- Micro-paintings on human hair - Link.
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Aug 19, 2007 12:00 PM
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August 18, 2007
Matryoshkus - Russian dolls
These are great! bit, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte and terabyte figures - Link.
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Aug 18, 2007 02:00 PM
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August 17, 2007
Mashing up your own action figures
Wired.com has a nice package of three articles covering action figure modding. "Action Figure Modders Aren't Just Toying Around" introduces the concept of custom figures, "Zap! A Gallery of Customized Action Figures" shows off a bunch of builder mods, and in Wired's How-To Wiki, "Make Your Own Action Figure" shows you how, or at least tells you how. Pictures would have been nice.
Action Figure Modders Aren't Just Toying Around - Link
Zap! A Gallery of Customized Action Figures - Link
Make Your Own Action Figure - Link
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Aug 17, 2007 08:00 AM
Arts, DIY Projects, Toys and Games |
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HOW TO - Paint with smoke
wikiHow shows you how to paint with smoke! -
Beginning with Wolfgang Paalen, visionary artists, including well-known surrealists such as Salvador Dali, practiced the fine art of "painting with smoke," otherwise known as "fumage." More delicate than charcoal, providing intriguing textures and patterns, fumage can serve as a standalone media or as an innovative approach to guiding the application of other media.How to Paint With Smoke - wikiHow - [via] Link.
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Sculptures made with smoke - Link.
HOW TO - Photograph smoke - Link.
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Aug 17, 2007 02:00 AM
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August 16, 2007
Toothpick and nail art
If you know more about this nail-and-toothpick artist post up in the comments - Link.
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Aug 16, 2007 02:00 AM
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August 15, 2007
Physical Interactions over IP
My friend Thomas Edwards, who's the alpha geek behind Dorkbot DC, has put up a new project wiki for his (and presumably other techno-artist's) work in what he calls Phy2Phy, or "Physical Interactions over IP." This YouTube vid shows progress-to-date on his "Touch" project, which allows two people to touch each other over a Net connection, using force-sensitive resistors. There's a lot of cool hardware here, including the Comfile CUBLOC CB220 microprocessor, the Pololu micro serial servo controller, the Lantronix Xport, and the force sensors. All details and links are on the Touch Project page on Phy2Phy. Thomas will be showing off his progress at the next Dorkbot DC, on Sept. 10.
Physical Interactions over IP - Link
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Aug 15, 2007 08:00 PM
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Wooden ball machine
Ben's amazing wooden prototype ball machine - Link.
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Aug 15, 2007 05:00 PM
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Bell-inspired kite project
When Toronto-based artist Amos Latteier is not making cardboard hover, he's working on other cool projects, such as this kite (above), inspired by Alexander Graham Bell's historical models (below). He's been tracking his progress on a kite blog and is now just days away from his test flight.
Bell Kite Project Blog - Link
Related:
- Cursor kite - Link
- Kite photos from Boston - Link
- Make Podcast: Weekend Projects Make A Kite Aerial Photography Rig - Link
From the page of MAKE:
Kite Aerial Photography Puts Your Eye in the Sky. MAKE 01 - page 50. To take pictures from a kite, you need three things: a kite, a camera, and a special rig that attaches the camera to the kiteline and activates the shutter ... Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition or get MAKE 01 @ the Maker store.
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Aug 15, 2007 04:00 PM
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Sotavento - what does a tree sound like?
If trees made music..
Sotavento is an artistic sound abstraction of the passionate and endless relationship between millions of trees and one single, inexorable wind, a wind that we all share. We establish an Internet-based, real-time movement communication between moving trees located in different countries. The trees' "dance" is tracked down by two dual-axis accelerometers, each fixed to the tip of a branch. We use the complex branch movements to generate or to trigger sounds. In this installation a tree is a self-replicant sound maker of its own dance. The audience can perceive the relation between the "dance" of the tree and the music it produces. Even is there is no wind, the tree in Mexico can "ask" (via Internet) for movements to a tree in Italy and generate its sounds with this information. The sounds are to be listened thanks to a set of four speakers installed around the tree.Sotavento - Link.
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Aug 15, 2007 09:00 AM
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The Hyposurface (video)
Hyposurface is freaking cool -
HypoSurface is the World's first display system where the screen surface physically moves! Information and form are linked to give a radical new media technology: an info-form device.The Hyposurface - Link.The surface behaves like a precisely controlled liquid: waves, patterns, logos, even text emerge and fade continually within its dynamic surface. The human eye is drawn to physical movement, and this gives HypoSurface a basic advantage over other display systems.
As a digital device, any input (sound, movement, an Internet feed...) can be linked to any output (logos, patterns, text...) This offers full interactivity with an audience, and a simple User Interface allows HypoSurface to be 'tuned' to any event, its wide range of effects choreographed easily (by you…)
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Aug 15, 2007 04:00 AM
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Anatomy tattoos
We posted up the science tattoos last week, so I suppose it's only fair to point to these science-like tats... The arm one is my favorite - Link.
Related:
Branded with science - Link.
DIY Tattoo'er - Link.
Kurt, the tattoo-robot - Link.
Tattoo kit for kids (DIY Miami Ink!) - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 15, 2007 12:00 AM
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August 14, 2007
Bot rock with the Robotmakers
It's called "Building a Robot," but it's not actually about building bots, it's a silly-cool video featuring a plastic wind-up robot toy, called The Personal Apprentice (one of which sits on my desk staring back at me while I type this), and lots of cool analog synths, some home-built. Lots of animated patch bay action.
Building a Robot - Link
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Aug 14, 2007 06:00 PM
Arts, Music, Retro, Robotics |
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Bacon tomb
What happens when you seal up bacon (and an egg) in lexan? Click to find out... - [via] Link.
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Aug 14, 2007 01:00 AM
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August 13, 2007
knife.hand.chop.bot
Wow, the knife.hand.chop.bot is my new favorite bot. The best part of the video is the laser dot that appears on the person's hand before it starts its chopping -
5VOLTCORE is about to build a self-fulfilling cybernetic system, that plays with the senses and perceptions of the User and the sensors and the processes of the Machine.knife.hand.chop.bot - Link.The Robot is equipped with a knife that the Machine uses to s(t)imulate the test of courage - a kind of game known as "Mumblety-Peg". The User puts his/her hand into the Machine and starts the knife game at the push of a button. The knife starts to hit the space between the fingers, first slowly then continually getting faster. The Machine knows where to chop by receiving signals of a sensor that guides the knife to the place between the fingers.
Electric contacts are mounted on the support block of the Machine, where the hand is situated. These contacts are activated as soon as the first "nervous sweat" appears that turns the skin into a conductor. Subsequently the computer becomes disturbed by the electric current that is now transmitted via the skin.
This has two effects: on the one hand, sounds are generated by the closure of the contacts (circuit bending) that can either be interpreted as warning or act as an additional source of stress. On the other hand, they can have an effect on the position of the knife which is controlled by the computer and thereby hurt the potential perpetrator of the disturbance.
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Aug 13, 2007 05:00 PM
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Mini motorcycles from watch parts
Lovely collection of minature motorcycles made from watch parts, anyone know who made these? - Link.
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Aug 13, 2007 08:00 AM
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August 9, 2007
Datamancer talks steampunk in WSJ video
Richard Nagy, better known by his online moniker Datamancer, is the star of a new Wall Street Journal video on steampunk hardware hacking.
Peek Into a "Steampunk" Workshop - Link
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Aug 9, 2007 04:00 PM
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Edible robotics
This is tasty, robots you can eat... -
Edible Robotics represents a sea change in thinking and action regarding our relationship with our friendly robot servants. Our goal in exploring this new territory is to report back from the frontier with our discoveries and observations in the hopes that others who follow will not fall prey to pitfalls we've stumbled across in the interest of science.Edible robotics - Link & photos.
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Aug 9, 2007 12:00 PM
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Branded with science
Good science these are some nice tattoos! - [via] Link.
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Aug 9, 2007 12:00 AM
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August 8, 2007
Cassette tape culture
Design boom's cassette tape culture -
these days it is hard to avoid the continuing debate that surrounds the 'future of music' and the formats that bring it to us. however this so called 'digital age' isn't the first time that new music formats have created such a stir, some time not too long ago it was cassette tapes that were causing the music industry concern. the design of the cassette tape was resolved in the 1960s by the dutch electronics company philips as a portable alternative to the large vinyl formats. having not been patented the cassette tape design was quickly copied by many manufacturers leading to its widespread use. during the mid 1980s cassettes were at their most popular accounting for more than half of the worlds total music sales. alongside the attraction of music on the move, the cassette tape offered the opportunity for people to edit and customize their music easily for the first time. the DIY ethic of the tapes didn't stop with home recording though, as many people often created their own artwork for their mixes.cassette tape culture - [via] Link.
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Aug 8, 2007 10:00 AM
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