Wow. It had to happen, of course. Shapeways have developed 3D printing in a material other than resin or polymer, the traditional materials for rapid prototyping physical objects. They can do it in stainless steel! The magic isn’t toooo surprising though, as they use the same techniques. Stainless steel dust is fused into a solid …
Tag Archive: hacking
Jun 03
Physical Information Visualization
Last week at Tinker.it!, we installed the “Centograph” at St. Paul’s School for Boys (London). This project is a real-life histogram, that moves its bars according to data values retrieved from Google. When you enter a search term into the computer, Centograph queries the Google News Archive for a list of related news articles over …
May 28
Brockenspiel and the Beeb
The BBC have stopped by our offices at Tinker.it! to review a bunch of different Arduino projects. There was a great deal of gaffer taping, shuffling about, rigging lights, posing and sweating. The upside will be much better quality video footage of the Brockenspiel in action than there is already – and I didn’t even …
Aug 09
Magic Balloons
At Tinker, we’ve been working on some blue glowing balloon clusters for an upcoming event. They consist of a blue LED and an ATTiny13 microcontroller and they pulse with a slow, compelling sine wave. Selecting the timing of the sine wave was an important consideration, but it was necessary to make a choice about the …
May 15
How to Use a WiiMote in a Processing Sketch
There has been a lot of development to reverse engineer the Wiimote so you can use it in new and interesting ways (see Johnny Lee’s stuff, for example). However, most artists and designers probably aren’t really familiar with programming in C#. Luckily, you can use the Wiimote in Processing, so you can get up and …
