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Weekly Staff Links, February 5th
February 5 Links
The Creators Project Interactive still-lifes (lives?). - Brandon
SolidSmack Gear Generator “The Gear template generator from woodgears.ca is a magical web-based tool (probably) using little wooden mathematical gears on the back end to output a 2D downloadable file, that you can also print, slap on a piece of cardboard, plywood, acrylic or other material and cut out.” - Alex
Dirty Money from Slate An interesting perspective on how the US and other countries can reduce our need for fossil fuels through better policy. - Seth
Math House This playground would make any kid get excited about math! Hidden in the suburbs of Charlotte, NC, Bob Sebrosky has been building a mathematical wonderland in his backyard for the past 10 years. Awesome. - Christine
The Edge Factor Show It’s a design contest for mechanical engineering and design students - $40,000 in cash prizes plus winner is featured in 3D HD video program. - Evan
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Weekly Staff Links, January 29th
We have some cool links for you this week. Art and Science coming together to improve the artistic experience. Technology that points the way to the future. Technology that connects computers to the physical world. Science that help artists make their art. Please enjoy!
Soft Circuit Roundup Neat collection of soft circuit projects. - Christine
iOS Communicating with Arduino The iOS-Arduino connectivity kit and a video of what can be done with it, such as reading sensors with the Arduino and communicating the readings to iOS devices. - Gregg
ARS Electronica | Prix ARS Electronica The ARS Electronica international digital culture competition which “discovered” Pixar, Wikipedia, and Wikileaks, is accepting submissions through March 2nd. Categories include music, animation, interactive art and big ideas; check out last year’s winners. - Evan
Samsung’s Transparent Smart Window at CES 2012 Samsung Smart Widow Display. - Adam
Color Dial Spray by Kim Young-suk, Kim Woo-sik, Oh Jin-ho and Lee Young » Yanko Design You read it correctly; CMYK you-dial-it spray cans in which you select the color that the can sprays! - Brandon -
Weekly Staff Picks, January 22, 2012
January 22
We have some really interesting links for you today from Technological and scientific fields and artistic endeavors and some from multiple areas. We hope you enjoy them on this cold Sunday in Philadelphia.
HAPTIC INTELLIGENTSIA A project that mixed a human element with 3D printing technology. They use haptic feedback to tell the human user when to extrude material from a glue gun. The end result is a human’s interpretation of the original design. - Alex
Transparent Aluminum? Not quite, but almost. A classic clip from Star Trek IV (predicting the future?) and a discussion of transparent aluminum: aluminum oxynitride or AION. - Gregg
Incredible sewn art. - Brandon
A 3D printable Zoetrope. You’ll have to click the link to find out! - Alex
A video projector for smart phones The size that this is packed into is amazing. - Brandon
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Weekly Staff Picks, January 15, 2012
Check out how Arduino is made! Photos and videos from a tour of the Arduino factory in Torino, Italy. - Christine
IEEE’s The story of Arduino It compliments the link above. - Gregg
3D Japanese Artwork Amazing Japanese artist who paints goldfish in resin the same way a 3D printer builds a part up layer by layer. - Alex
Scott Young’s Computer Science Blog “Over the next 12 months, I’m going to learn the entire 4-year MIT curriculum for computer science, without taking any classes. I’ve always wanted to speak that language. But, I didn’t want to invest four years of my life and hundreds of thousands of dollars to learn it. I want to show that learning doesn’t require acceptance boards and SAT tests, thousands of dollars in debt, or even the 4-year pace most students assume is necessary to learn a subject.
Will I fail? It’s definitely a possibility. I’m attempting to learn the same material at 4 times the speed without the benefit of instructors. I’ll also post any failures, so you can be sure I’m not omitting my mistakes.” - Alex
Diagnostic Contact Lens This one is pretty cool; a contact lens that monitors blood sugar levels. - Gregg
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Weekly Staff Picks, January 8, 2011
It’s been a little while since we posted our weekly links due the the holidays. We have a collection of links for you today that span technology and art and some that combine both. Please enjoy!
lighting bag by Wonsik Chae. - Brandon
The art and Science of CNC Waterjet and Laser Cutting Major custom metalwork company in Brooklyn does some beautiful laser cutting, water-jet cutting, and bending for architecture, art, and interiors. Check out their videos too. - Evan
Laser cut artwork + bicycles + cameras = awesome
“If attached to a bike wheel and filmed in motion this intricate paper cutout will animate to create lovely fluid movements; cogs turning and clouds growing and the like…I intend for these to be presented as art objects as in the pictures. I must stress, as I have many times with this project, this is about animation. It is not possible to see this with the naked eye. If you stick this on your bike you will not be able to see it unless you are filming it, I will include instructions on how to film it but I really see these more as pieces of art. - AlexSelf healing circuitry? Has any one seen our T-1000 around? - Gregg
Paper Powered Batteries Students-destroy your failed assessments and cool down your beer at the same time! - Matt
Wearable iPod Interface Apple may be working on a wearable iPod with Siri. - Gregg
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“The Helm”
I took on a challenge to create a pirate ship steering wheel. I wanted to give land lovers the powerful feeling of a captain steering their ship. Though this project is ongoing and ever changing, “The Helm” has been installed twice, each time adding additional pieces to further push the illusion of steering a ship on land.
The next step for “The Helm” will be to create bone structures (carved out of foam) to fill in the rectangular wooden ligatures. “The Helm” also has slots to insert lights to encourage people walking by to play with it.
I designed the wheel in Rhino and then brought the design to the ShopBot CNC Router. The base of the wheel was layered with different patterns to allow knobs to be lamented in. The knobs were also created by laminating wood together and milling them out on the ShopBot. The base of “The Helm” was designed to look as if it were the deck of a pirate ship. I made sure that the base had enough structural integrity to allow people to stand on it and also hold the wheel’s weight. The wheel is attached to the vertical bracing of the deck with two block pillows. A 1” steel rod, held on by shaft collars extends through “The Helm” and both block pillows.
-Brandon
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Hive 76/NextFab Collider
We had a great time Tuesday night with our members and fellow maker group Hive 76 members!
We kicked off the 5-hour make session with food, introductions, and some brainstorming for collaborative projects that we were excited about completing during the event.
Hive76 members got some demos on our machines such as our Trotec laser cutters, Roland CNC mill, and our Brother Digital Embroidery machine. Snowflakes generated from evilmadscientist were laser cut and engraved with a holiday-themed message from Hive76 and NextFab Studio. Some were wired with LEDs in our electronics lab.
As projects were being discussed, we gave demos on our PCB fabrication process, soft switch construction, and brass CNC engraving. One of our members and a Hive76 member had an idea for a “chair jousting” target apparatus (yes, it is exactly how it sounds), and make it, we did.
Thank you to all of our members who came in and to Hive76 for a great night of making and mingling!
Also, thank you to musician Jack Myers (http://www.myspace.com/jackmyersmusic) who played live music for the event.
Hope to see you all again soon!
Happy Holidays!
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Weekly Staff Picks, December 18, 2011
Here our staff picks. We have some really interesting links for you this week. One is even art from a scientist.
Leahy-Smith America Invents Act on Wikipedia America Invents Act summary on Wikipedia - a must read for anyone interested in inventing, patenting, or using inventions. - Evan
Engadget & Stratolaunch.com Paul Allen is backing another space vehicle launch system with Scaled Composites. - Gregg
MIT News A one trillionth of a second shutter speed camera to photograph individual photons from a laser beam. - Gregg
How to Start the First Night of Hanukkah This is from 2010, but still relevant today. - Anon
Flight Opportunities Working on technology that’s beyond this world? NASA is now providing opportunities for you to get it tested! - Evan
Stratasys video about animations using the Stratasys 3D printers. - Brandon
Jon Hiller works with “digital materials” - writing software and making 3D printers that can build shapes out of discrete bits (small spheres), but he’s also a great guitarist and has made carbon fiber acoustic guitars. - Evan
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Weekly Staff Picks, December 11, 2011
Here are our staff favorite links from this week. Once again we have articles from art and science sources. We hope you enjoy them.
Solidsmack Little robot figurines printed on Z-Corp printers. The coolest part is the Web interface they have for building and customizing your own robot. - Alex
Endless Forms allows you to design shapes using artificial evolution. The shapes are supposedly 3d printable from a downloaded file. Note that the display works best with WebGL installed. Try using the Google Chrome browser. - Evan
Miniature V12 engine at MAKEzine.com and nerdstink.com This is the smallest working V12 engine in the world according to this article. Very cool video shows the engine being assembled and then running. - Gregg
toxel.com Very interesting skateboard art made from the laminated fragments of skateboard decks. - Brandon
Spray On Fabric Think of the possibilities. (Looks a bit like Tyvec to me. - ed.) - Brandon
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Weekly Staff Picks, December 4, 2011
Here are our staff’s pick for this week. Science, art, and technology are represented by these links. The videos for the last 4 links are very interesting. Please enjoy!
The Material Connexion This is a database of innovative and sustainable materials. Very cool. - Christine
Audi quattro This is a great video about Audi’s quattro all wheel drive system. (Subaru pays Audi a licensing fee for ever all wheel drive Subaru they sell.) - Adam
Invisibility cloak that uses the scientific principles of mirages to work. - Brandon
The art of Japanese Sword making still exists in Japan. The video shows sword smithing and discuses the cultural importance of the art. - Gregg
The Bicycle Wheel Animation This is really neat. The video shows this art form much better than it can be described by words. - Yulia
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