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Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
Blinkybugs and LED Art

MAKE Demos , Sunday 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Learn to make fun, lifelike electro-mechanical insects with Ken Murphy, creator of Blinkybugs. They blink their LED eyes when their pipe-cleaner antennae pick up the slightest vibration. Plus: how to make a beautiful, unique framed LED art.

Location: Maker Shed Maker Shed

Learn to make blinking electro-mechanical insects with Ken Murphy, creator of Blinkybugs. They're made from just a few simple parts, but respond to movement in an almost lifelike way, blinking their LED eyes when their antennae pick up even the slightest vibration. Ken will also demonstrate his LED Art Kit. This is another simple project: a framed piece of luminescent LED art that projects an endlessly shifting pattern of color and light on a translucent screen. They're easy to make and each one is unique.

Web site: http://www.blinkybug.com/

About the Maker(s)

Ken Murphy [
Ken Murphy is a programmer, musician, and tinkerer who is trying really hard to be both an artist and a nerd at the same time. He's written how-to articles for Make and Popular Science, and is currently working on a new version of his Blinkybug kit that looks like a comic book.
http://www.murphlab.com/