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3D Animation Zoetrope
A 3 dimensional animation device was made based on a Zoetrope "stop motion" design. A 12" diameter turntable was built from simple parts and made to spin at 60 rpm. Multiple identical lego men were attached to the top of the turntable,each one with a slight change in position as if running and spaced equally around the turntable. A short duration variable speed LED strobe was designed and used to "stop" the motion of the LEGO men as they spin. The result is a visible 3D animation effect.
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Covert Public Messages
Inspired by movies like "They Live", "The Spiderwick Chronicles" and countless spy films, I wanted to create a means of displaying information in public, that only a select few could see. To the unaided eye, the mosaic of tinted film squares seems uniform and holds no particular meaning. But when viewed though a polarized filer (or a pair of polarized sunglasses), the concealed message becomes clear.
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Crystal Focus LED "lightsaber" Project
Matthew Carauddo
The most amazing and dynamic sound & light driver board you'll ever see. Made specifically for "LED saber props," in the spirit of the "Star Wars" films by Lucasfilm. (No affiliation or association with Lucasfilm, LTD or Lucasarts.)
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Curiously Bright LED & Audio Extravaganza!
Darker Technologies and Macetech combine forces this year to bring a variety of original projects including LED grow lights, simple RGB pixel elements, a giant RGB array nearly five feet tall, an Altoids tin-based high quality stereo component system, and more!
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Digital Co-laboratory
Come visit our exhibit and create art, play games, solve mysteries, manipulate data, capture ideas, and make connections. We'll use multiple formats of digital media with projection and electronic white board technology to dynamically bring makers of all ages into a digital co-laboratory.
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Hologlyphics
Hologlyphics combines elements of holography, music, video synthesis, visionary film, sculpture and improvisation to create a unique new artform.
These moving spatial visuals are seen in full 3D without glasses, intertwined with music and spatial sound. Although not the same technical process as holography, the visual result is the same.
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Huge Tesla Coils and Tower Electronique
Three huge Tesla Coils with lots of electricity and a Tower Electronique, a musical instrument that plays in the air. Also, flying balls machine, solar energy musical machines, and much more.
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Jack Sparx and his Electric Toys
Electricity you can see and feel will thrill those that come visit me! Small and medium Tesla coils, a large Van de Graff gnerator that will shock you if you like. Learn how a Jacob's Ladder is built and see one displayed. If you enjoy lightning storms, you'll have fun as we play with my high voltage toys!
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Laser Harp
Built using the Arduino controller, the laser harp is a musical instrument and performance piece. See
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLVXmsbVwUs">a video of Stephen's performance.</a>
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LED Hula Hoop
Michael Nuzzi
The LED Hula Hoop is a fun product used by professional performers, dancers, and anyone interested in having fun making cool streams of color in the dark. They can be seen at festivals like Burning Man, and can sometimes cost as much as $300. But you can make one yourself for a lot less. Instructions can be found on Craft Magazine Vol 6. But we will explore a simpler way to make an even better LED hoop for both adults and kids using minimal tools.
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Man-made Lightning
Vicki Johnson
This 5-foot-tall Tesla Coil generates dazzling, long, electrical arcs while also revealing basic physics principles with the Jacob's Ladder, Faraday's Cage, and grounding.
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Multi-Touch Table
We built a multi-touch table-top display for about $500 in materials. It uses infrared LEDs, a web cam and a sheet of acrylic. We have a multi-touch enabled music sequencer, plasma/lightning simulation, physics simulation and pong game.
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Optical Acoustics
This is a set of MP3 players that have the LED outputs. The modulated light is received by a photo-diode amplifier and the players send messages that are transmitted to various stars through a spotlight. The receiver is in a small telescope.
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Shadow Dome
Formerly known as Dreams of Electric Houses.
Make shadow puppets or use some of ours and use them to amaze your friends and befuddle your enemies on our wall-to-wall shadow theater.
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The ChakraTron
Made of mostly recycled and repurposed materials, this crystal figure of enlightenment houses 124 MCU's and 360 rgb leds. Embedded touch sensors in the outraised palm control the patterns and seed the random number generator for a Magic 8 Ball-style fortune. An internet "karma relay" webcam allows the larger universe to influence the displayed fortune.
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The Stribe
The Stribe is a touch-based music or video controller with no moving parts. It employs 8 touch-sensitive strips flanked by LED bar-graph displays. The controller is user-configurable, connects via standard USB, and is designed to be used with music interface software such as Max/MSP, Reaktor, and others. Via host software, the Stribe can control audio hardware and software via MIDI or OSC. The LED display can be computer controlled to respond to input from the sensors, or to independent software control, or both. The entire project is open source, meaning the circuits, firmware, and software are available on-line and are licensed under Creative Commons and GNU. Illustrated build instructions and a helpful Forum are also on-line. There is a small but growing community of Stribe developers who are building Stribes, and writing new firmware and software applications. The Stribe was inspired by Brian Crabtree's monome 40h project, and is an ideal companion to a monome button controller.
<a href="http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/02/18/hands-on-interview-stribe-multi-touch-controller/">Here is an article about the Stribe from CreateDigitalMusic</a>.
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