The Hole – video powered by Metacafe I find this demo to be pretty interesting for two reasons. One he applied his knowledge of basic circuitry and using that to create and innovated idea. I’m impressed that he could change the function of a normal flashlight to have an additional function. Also, I think that…
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Amy Young’s Mnemonic Devicive
Fast becoming one of my favorite contemporary artist Amy Young displays simple brilliance in her Mnemonic Devicive. The piece is composed of a Theremin, circuitry exposed, inside of a tire. A Theremin is an instrument played without being touched; the pitch of the emitted tone changes as ones hand gets closer or farther away. I…
The building blocks of life
So I followed this link for a while and I have to say how much I’m reminded that LEGOs are cool. I went here 1st: http://www.comlink.de/cl-hh/f.moeller/creator%20collection.html a link to some art from a previous LEGO design program. Next I went here: http://ldd.lego.com/download/ and downloaded the newest version. They start you off with a car chassis…
Atari is still cool
These photographs were taken by using long exposures to capture all the light motion that you wouldn’t normally notice while playing Atari games. I thought this was a very ingenious idea for taking pictures and I wonder how many other applications this method could be used on. The photos are beautiful works that inspire me…
Pong in Basic Stamp
Here is a valuable example for one of our interactive modes. There is another option for a laser projection which I think is a possibility as well. This site is the Sh*%, it has a lot of the open source available for us. This will give us some leeway to be a little more open…
Super Deluxe
What’s the best thing to do when you’re bored? Laugh out loud, and I know just the place to help you with that. As I sat back and pitched my eyes at my favorite programs on [adult swim] last Sunday, a bump came on for a website called superdeluxe.com. It wasn’t the first time I…
LEDs LEDs LEDs
This site is just about everything you could want that has to do with LEDs and ranges from cool to just well worthless. But I would check it out, maybe you could get some LED ideas for whatever it is you want to decorate, create with are fun little lights! http://www.theledlight.com/gadgets.html
Kevin Hamilton – Department of Rhythmanalysis
U.S. artist and Assistant Professor of New Media at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Kevin Hamilton, created this piece for the space at the Gahlberg Gallery at College of Dupage last summer. The installation consisted in: “[..] a grid of 60 inter-connected control panels. Through labeled LED indicators, each yellow panel purports to monitor a…
Make your own LED lightning bug jar!!!
I just thought this was so cool. This guy apparently took some firefly statistics of when fireflies light up and how many times and made his own jar of fireflies. He explains how he did it on his little blog. I think this is really neat. I always felt bad when I was little put…
MIT/IDEO Team up to Study Wearables
In September of 2009 MIT and IDEO Product Developement looked at how wearable computer technology could be used in two different people’s lives. Subject one was a 19 year old female MIT student and subject two was a 54 year old business man. Both raved about the convienience of being able to look up information…
taffic dependent bridge lighting
the colorful lights placed underneath the bridge are active with the traffic passing by on the bridges as well as the water movement below. each color that is programmed into the strucutre represents a different motion of the water and traffic. the colors are very beautiful in the water and a nice visual effect at…
128 Core Processor
I am completely amazed at the speed at which Intel is pumping out these processors. Even though is probably beyond consumer reach now. About a month ago I blogged about the 80 core processor, and shortly after 128 core comes rolling along. Though I’m more of an AMD user I’m really impress at the progress…