Maker Faire Long Island 2025
404: Boring Not Found
Home: New York, United States of America
404: Boring Not Found is a playful collection of interactive little machines that blink, sing, nod, and respond to your presence. Behind them are sensors, motors, Arduino, and visual programming—but more importantly, they are built for fun, for inter
Maker
Ruimin Liang
Ruimin Liang is an artist and maker based in New York, currently studying Art and Technology at Pratt Institute. Her work blends physical computing with emotional poetics, often using sensors, sound, and absurd gestures to explore intimacy, obedience, and the quiet drama of machines. Through interactive objects and performative systems, she invites people to play, listen, and discover unexpected tenderness in circuits.
What Inspired You to Make This?
I like making machines that feel a bit “human” — like when they blink, sing, or respond to people, and suddenly seem alive. That strange but fun interaction between humans and machines really moves me. I often find inspiration in small details from daily life, absurd humor, and the unexpected ways machines behave. Picking up trash and studying it has also inspired me — there’s something touching about giving discarded things a second life.
