Project Gallery
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We'd love to include your MakingThings project in our gallery. Please provide a text description of your project and a few photos. If possible, also include links to information and materials used to create the project - software, sensors, motors, or anything else. To submit your project, please email contact at makingthings.com.
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FlexBot
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CandyFab 4000 |
Electric Giraffe |
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| An autonomous mobile robotic platform that communicates and is controlled by a desktop application written in Flex. by Patrick Adesso |
An inexpensive 3D printer project that makes models out of pure sugar. By Windell Oskay and Lenore Edman |
A life-sized robotic giraffe that talks, walks, and can carry people. By Lindsay Lawlor |
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Remembrancer |
ensemble |
The Make Drawbot |
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| Robot painters translate internet data feeds into works of art. The data is also used to create accompanying musical compositions. By Alberto Gaitán |
A multi-user installation where participants can play music using four different types of interactive "instruments". by Sung Hee Ma, Hyeyoung Eun, and Dofl Y. H. Yun |
The Make Drawbot physically draws out images that are fed to it via the computer it's connected to. By Bre Pettis & Co. |
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In Search of Identity |
Sparky 2 |
Animatronic Mask |
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| A human-scale display system to allow visitors to explore the photographic work of artist Tatiana Parcero. By Nikolai Cornell. |
"You might call Sparky a state-of-the-art schmooze bot" - Wired News. A mobile robotics platform based on a WiFi Mac Mini and a Make Controller. By Marque Cornblatt. |
Build simple animatronics using inexpensive hobby servos, flex sensors, and the Make controller kit. By Jerome Kelty |
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Trees |
diVA Balloon Controller
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Nixie Clock |
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| Sensors pick up the movement of passers by and changes in the weather. Virtual branches sway to real wind. By Simon Heijdens |
The diVA system allows for simple control of a wide variety of interactive devices - the Make Controller Kit can plug in and, in this case, provide motor control. By Shaun Mavronicolas |
The Nixie Clock reads the current time from an online time server, and uses vacuum-tube nixie displays to show what time it is. By Brian Parkinson. |
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Kontakt |
RSS Weather Reader |
Detour |
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| A human chain between four metal contact points and two pots of water. By Stijn Schiffeleers |
The Make Controller Kit connects to an online RSS feed with current weather conditions, and then writes them to a small LCD monitor. By Brian Jepson. |
A multi-sensory environment that records audio and video of people that have visited it. Displayed at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. By VE_Design |
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Kegel Controller |
Ansari X Prize Exhibit |
Under DC |
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| An interactive art performance using biofeedback from pelvic muscles to manipulate sound and video. By Kater |
An exhibit at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, CA with info about the Ansari X Prize and a working model of the system. By Eddie Elliot. |
An art installation that features small "worms" that creep out of their holes until somebody approaches, at which point they retract quickly into their holes. By Clark Scheffy |
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Wave Pillow |
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| The Wave Pillow monitors surf levels online, and buzzes a vibrator in the pillow to wake you up if surf levels are looking good. By Elmar Trefz |
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