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[Ben's] father was a metalworker and the combination of being around metal fabrication for most of his life and getting a couple of art degrees brought together a satisfying combination of hacking skills. Above you can see a Graffiti Machine that he built, which we'll look at in-depth after the break.. This isn't the first CNC machine he's worked on. [Ben] became interested in rapid prototyping … [Read more...]
[Jon] wanted to have some fun with the Graffiti Research Lab's LASER Tag. Unfortunately his computer wasn't quite up for the challenge of detecting the laser pointer with a webcam. Not to be discouraged by this hardware limitation, he purchased a used Wacom tablet and threw together some code to make it work with the GRL display software. Now designs can be scrawled on the pad and the projector … [Read more...]
For those who watched the Tour de France, you may have been pleasantly surprised to see some cool tech. Nike was using a robot to paint pictures on the street in chalk dot matrix style. It was accepted by the general public as new and innovative, as well as generally cool. In the hacker community though, a bit of trouble began to brew. The Chalkbot bears more than a passing resemblance to a … [Read more...]
Wondering what we did with our web server on a business card project from last week? It's powering a giant LED graffiti wall. Animations can be user-submitted using the online designer. You can watch a live feed of user animations as well. The online interface runs on the Google App Engine for maximum scalability and resilience. In today's How-to we cover all the ins and outs of building your … [Read more...]
[Nate Graham] gave a presentation on what he considers 'new media art', the convergence of art and technology. He covered quite a few great examples of what new media art is from many categories: a mower that creates pixel art, Cory Arcangel's famous Super Mario Clouds hack, a whale hunt whose photo capture rate depended on the participant's heart rate, the bike based SMS printer for protests. … [Read more...]
After I linked his basic laser pointer webcam interface the other day, [mnt] sent me this excellent demo of his gesture based laser pointer control. This one works alot like graffiti on the old palm pilots. My question? What does he make when he's not sick? … [Read more...]
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