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Sachiko Kodama & Yasushi Miyajima created these amazing music-synced ferrofluid sculptures-
“Morpho Towers–Two Standing Spirals” is an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold ferrofluid. When the music starts, the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened. Spikes of ferrofluid are born from the bottom plate and move up, trembling and rotating around the edge of the iron spiral.”
Morpho Towers - Two Standing Spirals, Thanks Technick29! Link.
Related:
- Snake game with Ferrofluid - Link.
- Make your own Ferrofluid - Link.
- HOW TO - Ferrofluid synthesis - Link.
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Dug North writes -
I have made some additions and put the finishing touches on an automaton I started a few years ago: A Boybot and His Dogbot.
Stylistically, this piece is different than my other automata in that I have used geometric shapes for the figures and have decided to leave the wood unfinished. I experimented with painting the figures, but they lost too much of their charm.
The piece is on public display at The Charles River Museum of Industry in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.
Here’s a link to detailed pictures of the figures and the mechanism from A Boybot and His Dogbot.
The Automata / Automaton Blog: A Boybot and His Dogbot piece by Dug North - Link & photos.
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Raphael writes in -
Someone gave me a Kenwood infra-red keyboard, designed for some Kenwood audio equipment. In order to make somthing useful with it, I built a receiver which connects to a PC PS/2 port.
PS/2 Keyboard IR Receiver - Link.
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Weekly Project: Noggin Logger–A Wearable GPS Data Logger
Where have you been? And, where did you go today? While words can aptly describe your daily activities, a picture can communicate around a thousand words, or something like that. Better yet, take that picture and wrap it around a fistful of GPS data and now you’re really talking.
The GPS Logger V1.1 kit from Spark Fun Electronics (#GPS-00671) is a complete plug-n-go solution for logging every step you take during a day, a week, or, even almost, a month (in KML logging mode). Just pop in some batteries, flick the teensy switch, and within a couple of minutes you’ll know exactly where you’re standing when you flicked that teensy switch.
Based on the Lassen iQ GPS module by http://…
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Ben Heck shows you how to make an Xbox 360, he writes -
The making-of How-To for the Xbox 360 laptop will be in three parts. In today’s segment we’ll discuss the parts list, stripping down an Xbox 360 motherboard, and modding / reattaching the DVD and hard drives. The next installment will cover case design, construction and hacking the LCD display, as well as wiring the video. Part 3 will then describe wiring all the separate parts together, troubleshooting, and finishing up the unit. Full design files will be including along the way. Let’s take a look and prep to get started!
How-To: Make an Xbox 360 laptop (part 1) - Link.
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MAKE Flickr photo pool member dustplanks has posted the 10,000th photo in the MAKE group! Link.
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Wow! Check out the great idea from Evil Mad Scientist Labs to turn your flickr photos into a place to catalog your collection like Lenore’s super ball collection here. Lots of tips on how to tag and organize. Why not do this for your collection of ribbon, yarn, fabrics? The possibilities are endless. Link.
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These are fun, laser cut fake leather watches -
eealfakewatches are wristwatches that only work for one minute every day (well, two for analog ones). they are being made by linda kostowski and invited other designers.
the watches are laser cut from three pieces of genuine leather and manually assembled. they are fastened with velcro. each one comes with both a unique time (hand-picked by our randomizer robot) and a thinglink engraved on the back.
realfakewatches combine manual making and the technology of rapid prototyping. we are based in berlin, germany.
realfakewhat? | realfakewatches - Link & photos.
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Trebuchet03 sent in the latest installment on the UCF HPV (human powered vehicle) fairing project - with more time lapse! Link.
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Large Scale Mold Making - Making the Negative “Tool” - Link.
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Gene writes -
Rigid Chips is almost like a virtual set of legos, except you have parts like V8 engines, rocket thrusters, laser ring gyroscopes, and guns. You can also add scripting to your models so you can make things like segways and autonomous vehicles. If your really ambitious you can also script “scenarios” or basically games you can play in Rigid Chips. You can also make your own levels. Rigid Chips even has a multi-player mode so you can do battle with tanks, airplanes, hovercrafts, cupcakes, or what ever else you can think of. There are many rigid chips models and resources available online.
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- Software download - Link.
- Visual editor - Link.
- Scripting resources - Link.
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