Retro gaming is such a fun topic. It’s interesting how beloved it is, both with those who lived through it and see it with the rose colored glasses of nostalgia, and those who are approaching it with fresh new eyes. Aweirdguy tapped into this love with a project that looks deceptively easy, a floating “Chomp” […]
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While attending Maker Faire Lille, I was happy to meet Mimi, an artist that got the bright idea to use discarded face masks as raw material for fashion. Mimi saw the piles and piles of used masks that were going into landfills all over and thought that she could make a statement about disposable fashion […]
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With how important desktop and laptop computers are to the world today, it’s hard to imagine that, not too long ago, they used to be the size of refrigerators and entire rooms. However, Nicolas Temese has found a way to keep the memory of these gigantic machines alive — by shrinking them down to a fraction of […]
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In A Crack in the Hourglass, a media artwork by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, people are invited to submit a photograph and story of a loved one lost during Covid. Over a period of about 40 minutes a modified robotic plotter draws the image of the loved one using hourglass sand. Once the drawing is complete […]
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I am a huge fan of Stranger Things. So when one of my favorite YouTubers, Dude Dad, built a 14-foot mind flayer and a life-sized Demogorgon 20 miles away from me, I knew I had to go check it out!
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At Maker Faire Rome I was lucky enough to get to see the work of Kelly Heaton first hand. She took a little time to talk with me about her work and her goals for the future. . For those who aren’t already familiar, you’ll typically see her art as birds (and other natural things), […]
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The drive to make your yard a Halloween spectacular can come from any number of influences. In this case, the inspiration came from a massive septic tank, painted as a jack-o-lantern many years ago. Instructables user Haunted Spider, remembered this giant decoration fondly for years and has now recreated the splendor of their memory for […]
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