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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.

(Source: blog.makezine.com)

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.

(Source: goo.gl)

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