Nick Squires details his time spent using his maker skills to produce an interactive art installation and performance.
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This x-y plotter uses coffee drips — each carefully calibrated for size and height — to create these portraits.
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If you didn't participate in our fall program for Maker Camp After School, don't worry! Here's a recap of the coolest stuff we made this season.
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A picture might be worth a thousand words, but for an interactive sound work called GRIDI a picture is worth infinite midi loops!
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The purpose is clear. You don’t want your kids to steal your food from the cupboard, or from the fridge, or someone to open your locker. Or maybe you want to take pictures of your pet stealing food. Or maybe you are Dwight Schrute and you want to finally unmask […]
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Now you can recreate the infamous dance scene from Ex Machina with some cardboard, LEDs, and Arduino.
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Akiba of Freaklabs helped design sequenced lighting like those used in the Wrecking Crew Orchestra shows
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The current class of Autodesk Artists in Residence was bigger than ever, and their work was on display at Pier 9 in San Francisco over the weekend. Check out just a sampling of some of our favorites.
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It's just an egg, placed in a vulnerable position. "I thought it would be fun to pit a large metal machine against a small fragile object," says Mendoza.
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Riffing off of the word clock idea, this Maker created a backlit display for the local weather forecast.
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