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Winning the prize for the best named home made instrument ever the Oomphalapompatronium. Leonard Solomon is the man behind this crazy contraption, you can find more of his creations on his youtube channel or at his website. Take a look at his show promo real on the youtube channel, its pure crazy inventor genius.
Make your own miniature figure souvenirs. Using Kinect and some clever hackery and a 3D printer this installation piece lets members of the public pose for the camera and have a little miniature of themselves printed up on the spot.
This is just fantastic. Great concept, great implementation. Would love to have a look at this up close and chat with the people that made it.
Will have to get me some Kinect goodness soon.
How on earth do I always miss Maker Faire UK!?
shed:
Kinect-Controlled Tesla Coils: The Evil Genius Simulator (via enyay)
Makerfaire UK seems to have gained traction - I shall have to go again!
Nice idea...
Sadly though I doubt the effect would last if this was used in bins all around the world. Novelty factor is certainly fun, but it does wear off. Still, engineering being applied to make the things around us more interactive and fun can certainly change our behaviour.
tomeparker:
How do you get people to use public bins? With some electronics and ingenuity this is the answer.
Have to agree with cheenoonions on this one. Great little mashup of some classic tunes. Really good to see someone build a MIDI device then properly demonstrate it with something that actually sounds good.
cheesenoonions:
His choice of what to mashup is awesome.
Put together this little video of my latest Android side-project. PinMan, a slightly sadistic little toy that lets you torture a poor innocent stick figure.
You can get it on the market at http://goo.gl/aIOM9 both paid and ad supported versions are available. Hope you like it.
Illuminatrix Live Wallpaper
So the Illuminatrix went to the London 2010 Decompression party a couple of weeks ago at the Cable club. A fantastic time was had by all, and we got to meet some of the people who'd contributed to the animations.
One of our friends also provided a really great idea which got stuck in my head so simply had to be executed. He'd suggested that we link up all the online animations with an Android Live Wallpaper so that they can live in the background of your phone.
A few days of hard work later and its a reality. Launched on Tuesday, the Illuminatrix Live Wallpaper lets you browse all the animations we used in the project (and any new ones you create on the website) and download them to your phone. It also supports background scheduled downloading, and automatically changes animations after a configurable timeout. Letting you have a new animation every time you use your phone.
I love the results, so if you like pixel art do a search for Illuminatrix on the Android Market and get making some of your own animations on the website.
Its been a while since I updated here. Since my last post I devoted a huge amount of time to getting the LED Driver project I posted about working.
We decided to call it the Illuminatrix and opened it up to animations created by the public (you can still add your own using the editor on the website). We managed to get the whole thing working and out on the playa by the Tuesday evening. It was truly awesome to see the animations blasting out in the night.
Members of the public really outdid themselves and we ended up with over 300 animations to play, ranging from the really basic, to the truly awesome. In all the project was a wonderful success and we've had some really great little stories come back from people who saw the piece.
We'll be taking the project to Decompression in London this year if we can, but we've still got lots of work to do to make it truly portable enough to get around on the tube!
In all its been a very busy 6 months, but normality has once again reasserted itself and I should be back posting on here a little more often than before.
I love this little scale model. I should probably prototype something similar myself to begin programming our 16x16 RGB matrix.
carbonworkshop:
I put this mini-booth together in order to start programming interactions for our Burning Man installation “Excellent Adventure” while the actual PCBs are being fabricated. The scale figure of me was actually something I made back in college for a large-scale model.
For more information about Carbon Workshop or the Excellent Adventure project, go to www.carbonworkshop.com.
Here's a quick video of the LED Driver board I posted about previously. This video shows the driver board controlling 16 RGB LEDs cycling through the HSL colour space.
Getting the HSL to RGB conversion to work on a PIC proved a little tricky (most examples on the web assume floating points, or 32bit integers). But after much fiddling I got it working fairly well, though I suspect many improvements can be made yet.
Next we need to make another copy of the board using a PIC with hardware I2C support to help speed things along, and get it made professionally to confirm the design. Then we make a master board to control all these slave LED drivers, and away we go!
There's some additional videos below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olOzodpHFiQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzeEKZkFnuo
I've been hard at work on CircuitBee....but we have something to show for it at least!
circuitbee:
We’ve been moving steadily along with implementation, so we thought we’d show you some of our progress.
Above is an embedded view of one of our first symbols an Operational Amplifier symbol built by one of our helpful beta testers using our current version of the Symbol Editor.
This kind of embedding will be possible across all our design types, including circuits and boards, allowing you to share your work on your own sites and others.
So, we now have a working symbol editor, next up is a circuit designer then we’ll be going forward with a public beta so you can try it yourself!
Just finished making the PCB for a little LED project I'm working on with a friend for BurningMan this year. Didn't turn out as well as hoped, had some problems with undercutting, and lost a few tracks.
Definitely need to improve the technique. We used the Toner Transfer method to move the toner from a piece of glossy photo paper to the board, then etched with Ferrich Chloride solution.
Initially didn't heat the etchant but tried to use a sponge to agitate it, I think this probably didn't help with the undercutting. Plus I accidentally rubbed off some of the toner.
Still, it'll work for our initial prototype, and give us enough feedback to modify the board before getting it professionally printed.
Just gotta love people with lego.
I like this....very apt given my current hobby. Found via jeiar
Russell Walks' Periodic Table of Imaginary Elements. Everything from Adamantite to Zuunium(!?).
Made me think....do you think Universal Publishing have the appropriate licenses to use these videogame characters?
Is it just me or do you feel sorry for the poor tree too?
