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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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  candyfab main   giraffe main

ensemble

 

CandyFab 4000

 

Electric Giraffe

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
  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

 

Kegel Controller

 

The Make Drawbot

Robot painters translate internet data feeds into works of art.  The data is also used to create accompanying musical compositions.
By Alberto Gaitán
  An interactive art performance using biofeedback from pelvic muscles to manipulate sound and video.
By Kater
  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

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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  nixie

Trees

 

diVA Balloon Controller

 

Nixie Clock

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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  weather - rss   detour.jpg

Kontakt

 

RSS Weather Reader

 

Detour

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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Wave Pillow

 

Ansari X Prize Exhibit

 

Under DC

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
  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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