For this years Maker Faire, my good friend Jon Foote built these 5 awesome Luxo Jr inspired set of robotic desk lamps. The lamps have several articulated points that can either be controlled by a joystick or from pre-programmed patterns. Jon calls this piece C.A.R.D.L.E, which I believe stands for Completely Awesome Robotic Desk Lamp [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2011’
Me and my Zumi
The Digital Harinezumi is a small digital camera that shoots like a toy camera. The lens gives similar “plastic” feel as a Holga, but with a lo-fi aesthetic from the “perfectly flawed” processing chip. I got one of the first generation Zumi’s from Photojojo a year back. Though I thought shooting video in low light [...]
Bit Shifter’s full Blip Fest 2011 set
Bit Shifter‘s entire Blip Festival set is online now, with visuals by Visualicious. I’ve been listening to it all day at work. Thanks to Emily Feder for posting this and other great chip music acts from the festival!
The Open Spark Project
My friend (and Tribal Games coworker) Steven Clark recently submitted a piece to the Open Spark project. Open Spark has created giant Tesla audio amplifies, similar to the ones ArkAttack use at Maker Faire, and given composers the chance to submit their own music to be “performed” live on Ustream. Here is a direct link [...]
iPhone photos from this year’s Maker Faire
I had a fantastic time at this year’s Maker Faire in San Mateo, CA. I spent most of Saturday hanging out and tabling at the Pulsewave SF table, but I was able to snap some shots throughout the event. I’m posting some of my favorite pics below, but you can see (and help tag) the [...]
