Cool rotary optical beat sequencer, based on a record turntable, from French media artists Jesse Lucas, Erwan Raguenes and YRO. It's called "Dyskograf."
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday November 9th, 2012 7:14 AM
Categories: Music, Art & Design, Hacks | 3 Comments
PublicLaboratory is a fantastic citizen scientist organization with really useful projects like DIY spectrometers (for finding out what’s really in stuff) and aerial mapping for monitoring of oil spills, landfills, etc....
Posted by kevino | Thursday November 8th, 2012 2:52 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Fun & Games, Photography & Video, Raspberry Pi, Science | 10 Comments
We love the DIY Hologram Kit, but did you know that it could be capable of making full color holograms? With the right lasers and a little more funding, you'll...
Posted by Michael Castor | Wednesday July 18th, 2012 8:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design | No Comments
Besides being a generally cool idea, French inventor Michel David's volumetric display prototype gets serious wacky-contraption style points. Michel puts the cost of his machine at €40, and though his...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday June 18th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Computers & Mobile, Electronics | 4 Comments
I especially like the new streamlined Space Invader shapes. I always wondered what they really looked like.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday June 4th, 2012 1:00 PM
Categories: Art & Design | 9 Comments
The traditional way to cobble together a tilt-shift adaptor involves some plumbing and a little trial and error. Things have become a little easier if you have access to a...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Thursday May 10th, 2012 4:00 AM
Categories: 3D Printing, Art & Design, Photography & Video | No Comments
I didn't think Nirval Patel's DIY desktop spherical display unit could get any better. I was wrong.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday May 9th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: 3D Printing, Art & Design | 4 Comments
Sweet find by our own Rachel Hobson over on National Geographic: A zoomable high-resolution panorama of Discovery's flight deck, by photographer Jon Brack. I swear I've found at least one...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday April 20th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Photography & Video | 11 Comments
And the Hack a Day writers have seen a bunch of them. We’ve covered quite a few, ourselves, and I have to concur that this 8x8x8 RGB from Nick Schulze...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday April 9th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Electronics | 4 Comments
Congrats to MAKE pal Dino Segovis, who just published the 52nd and final project in his one-year Hack a Week series: This cool laser "oscillograph" that modulates an audio input...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday March 26th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Electronics | 2 Comments
Stevie Bathiche, director of Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group, introduces this video from GeekWire by explaining that "it looks like we just took an LCD and took the backlight off, but...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday March 26th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Computers & Mobile, Fun & Games | No Comments
Stack Overflow member Heike describes the image processing algorithm he wrote to automatically track down the elusive international fugitive known, to date, only as "Wally" or "Waldo."
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday March 23rd, 2012 6:05 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Computers & Mobile | 2 Comments
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