The lack of Corporate and Governmental transparency has been a topic of much controversy in recent years, yet our only tool for encouraging greater openness is the slow, tedious process of policy reform.
Presented in the form of a Soviet F1 Hand Grenade, the Transparency Grenade is an iconic cure for these frustrations, making the process of leaking information from closed meetings as easy as pulling a pin.
Equipped with a tiny computer, microphone and powerful wireless antenna, the Transparency Grenade captures network traffic and audio at the site and securely and anonymously streams it to a dedicated server where it is mined for information. Email fragments, HTML pages, images and voice extracted from this data are then presented on an online, public map, shown at the location of the detonation.
Whether trusted employee, civil servant or concerned citizen, greater openness was never so close at hand..
The Robotic Drawing Machine was built by maker/designer/craftsman Sandy Noble and he calls it a Polargraph which is really nothing more than a pen attached to string that’s moved by two small motors.
With an assist from good ‘ole gravity and some clever software the pen arcs back and forth, similar to a standard back-and-forth plotter printer, creating the beautifully textured drawings above.
Stumbled upon this many months ago but managed to forget the name and couldn’t find it again. Cheers!
IkeaHackers.net is a site about modifications on and repurposing of Ikea products. Hacks, as we call it here, may be as simple as adding an embellishment, some others may require power tools and lots of ingenuity.
En snygg digital bordsklocka som man kan programmera själv.
DOTKLOK is an open-source, hackable, Arduino-based digital clock that displays a series of unique time-telling animations.
The passing of time is depicted with numbers and abstract/geometric patterns, including animations inspired by classic video games such as Pong, Tetris, Pacman, and Space Invaders.
The video above shows a team of quadrotors cooperating to construct the framework of a (rather small) building. The building’s structure is held together with magnets, and the quadrotors are able to verify that the alignment is correct by attempting to wiggle the structural components around, which is pretty cool.
Inköpt! Leverans tar väl ett par dagar. Men sen blir det pulande i Ableton Live. Vill gärna försöka hooka upp den till Processing-skisser eller pythonexperiment.
Robot som kan klättra på väggar.
Wielding two claws, a motor and a tail that swings like a grandfather clock’s pendulum, a small robot named ROCR (“rocker”) scrambles up a carpeted, 8-foot wall in just over 15 seconds – the first such robot designed to climb efficiently and move like human rock climbers or apes swinging through trees.
Jag köpte version 1.0 av denna ljudleksak. Mest för att den var grymt cool. Nu är 2.0 här och man kan nästan säga att Thingamagoopen har tagit steget från leksak till synth.
Nyheter:
• Analog VCO controlled by analog or digital signal from Arduino. (A separate Arduino board is not required) • Sample and hold, Arpeggios, noise, and bit crush effects with open source code so you can program your own sounds! • All the analog sounds of the original Thingamagoop. • Controllable LEDacle – Ramp and random waveforms with rate control. • New modulators – Square wave amplitude modulator and triangle wave pulse width modulator. • Tough, stomp box type body with silk screened graphics in 3 different styles. • Easy to access battery – No more screws! • Much fuller and louder speaker. • CV in and out. • Arduino Programmer jack. Easily hook an Ardunio board up to the Thingamagoop 2. • Kit now comes with a pre-drilled enclosure. • Still assembled in Austin, Texas by Dr. Bleep and friends.
Breed is a computer program that uses artificial evolution to grow very detailed sculptures. The purpose of each growth is to generate by cell division from a single cell a detailed form that can be materialised. On the basis of selection and mutation a code is gradually developed that best fulfils this “fitness” criterion and thus yields a workable form. The designs were initially made in plywood. Currently the objects can be made in nylon and in stainless steel by using 3D printing techniques. This automates the whole process from design to execution: the industrial production of unique artefacts.
Helt grymt. Även om jag skulle velat se större variation på tillvägagångssätt för formen. Skaparna är Driessens & Verstappen, en Amsterdambaserad studio.
