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This giant digital overhead clock by Realities:United and titled "Contemporary Architecture" was commissioned by NYC gallery, Artists Space and showed time overhead in a big way as well as provided room lighting. Check out the time-lapse video link below to see how it worked. Contemporary Architecture Video [ Read this article ] [ Comment on this article ]... more

Garth of Extreme Craft had the Zen Paintball booth at Maker Faire and was pleasantly surprised by the parents. The Zen Paintball booth was a smashing (splatting?) success. I should’ve seen it coming, but I didn’t anticipate that 80% of my paintball artists would be kids! THAT was a great surprise. Claire and I had a blast helping young artists realize that they don’t need a brush or crayons to make art. I like to go on diatribes about how overprote... more

This traffic signal design from 1936 by Charles Marshall (called the "Marshalite") was used in Australia for about 30 years and utilized 2 motorized rotors to point at colored sections of red, green, and yellow for the corresponding result. Using the standard clock face metaphor, the displays showed "signal phase timing" clearly on their faces. [ via ] [ Read this article ] [ Comment on this article ]... more

This custom built synth, called the "Abyssal" by Atomosynth (who we covered in Make back in the fall) is an analog, photo-noise and oscillating filter synth that features one square wave and saw waveform generator with a large pitch range, from subsonic to ultrasonic sound. Everything is controlled from a large photocell visible from the front that allows it to work as a photo "Theramin". Pretty cool videos of it in action at the link below. Abyssal [ Read this article ] [ Co... more