Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Eppendorf clock

Quick clock to keep time, made from an Eppendorf box (the world's greatest pipettes)


Runs on an arduino, sparkfun clock module with back-up battery.  Good basic start, now needs some hacking!

100kGarages, CNC, and Shopbot

At makerfaireRI, 100kGarages were there, a great resource for shopbot sites

Color picker arduino

Still working on a small interactive coral sculpture. The coral is semi-transparent and contains an RGB LED from adafruit, and connected to an arduino and 3 pots to change RGB colors.  A sparkfun serial LCD displays RGB values. The coral will change colors depending on the temperature of the ocean in Australia, Hawaii, and Florida.  A video of the color picker, to determine colors of the corals, is on Color Picker on YouTube

Old BEAM project

Old BEAM project -

Book binding

Looking at Kristin's beautiful work, reminds me of my book binding attempt.  Based on a Moleskin notebook following some good instructions Astronomical endpapers, attempt at sewing pages went well, but definately need a better technique.





 

Wasn't too bad but I definately need some practice.

 

 

Great tutorial on making case bound books, and the etsy booking binding artis have great tutorial list of box making and book binding resources and books



A nice tutorial from Etsy on introduction to bookbinding

Hand made books and printing

Kristin Crane makes beautiful books from old maps.  Saw her work in Providence, at MakeFaire RI.

She uses coptic binding and lots of lotka paper