Related:

• V8 coffee table - Link.

"I got interested in clocks as a way of learning some electronics, particularly microcontrollers. Besides, I like blinking lights. I favor the mid-range PICs from Microchip and use a development board/programmer from Mikroelektronika." - Link.

"This "electrochemical and electromechanical apparatus for the display of illuminated messages" is really a (heavily) modified persistence-of-vision toy. This toy was a pen i picked up at the local pharmacy (Walgreen's) with a spinning head that displayed whatever message you programmed in. It was only $5.00, so i picked up a couple and let my imagination fly.

All in all, it cost me about $20US and two weeks worth of spare time (about 10 hours)" Thanks Mikest! - Link.

"This is the first collaboration between the Anti-Advertising Agency and the Graffiti Research Lab.

Bit and modified from Ji Lee's Abstractor TV. We used black foam core ($10/sheet) cut with a laser cutter - but this project can be done with an x-acto blade, black paper, and duct tape. It can be repeated using any backlit display - bus shelters, display ads or television store windows.

More:

• Photos - Link.
• Light Criticism - Link.
• Ji Lee's Abstractor TV - Link.

• HOW TO - Make LED Throwies - Link.
• Light Brix - Touch sensitive light graffiti - Link.
• Hektor the graffiti artbot - Link.
• HOW TO - Solar Powered Light-Graffiti Projector - Link.
• Make Moss Graffiti - Link.

"These Lightweight, collapsible speakers are portable and can be folded away and placed in the included pouch when not in use. Plug them into your personal stereo's headphone jack to enjoy quality sound.
The name "MUJI" is derived from the Japanese phrase "Mujirushi Ryohin," meaning "No Brand Goods." Over the last 20 years, they have developed a worldwide following with a guiding philosophy that emphasizes innovative and simple materials, processes, and packaging. The resulting products are streamlined, environmentally friendly, and beautiful in their simplicity. Made of cardboard and electronic components." [via] - Link.

Related speakers:

• "Speaker icon" speakers - Link.
• HOW TO - make folding speakers - Link.
• Fold-Up Speakers - Link.
• HOW TO - Make hard drive speakers - Link.
• Portable cardboard speakers - Link.

"..I was involved in an art piece that used your (MAKE) Mp3 player. It was an interactive art piece, in which you would look at a two way mirror and see yourself, then activate a light and see infinite reflections of a heart suspended in earbuds, and you could listen to a sound that went a long with it. I enjoyed using your product, and if I can tell anything more about the way I implemented it into this projected I would be happy to..."

Daisy MP3 Player Kit - Store and more info.

More photos after the jump as they say...

So, Bre and some crafty accomplishes hit the streets - Link.

Related:

• The Rasterbator (Make your own) - Link.
• More photos - One, two.

From the pages of MAKE:

• Print the Universe. Make gigantic posters with a free web service. MAKE 03 - page 127. Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition or pick up MAKE 03.

My version was to print out the universe which still counts as a self portrait Bre, you just need to zoom in really close. If we print the universe actual size, it might take awhile.

U-Ram Choe's work engages a fanciful dialog of aesthetics and machinery, and explores themes of biological transformation, flight, and movement. In his recent work, large-scale metal and plastic automata materialize with such a delicacy and weightlessness that it seems to take on the shape and silhouette of an organic life form. Motors, heat and light sensitive materials add to the intricacy of Choe's kinetic sculptures.

With Choe's incorporation of scientific nomenclature into artwork titling systems, walking into the gallery space can be reminiscent of touring a prehistoric exhibit at a natural science or history museum-there are certain elements of recognition: mechanical diagrams, text descriptions of habitats, visible evidence of fins evolving into wings, and even propellers. The warm biologic livelihoods of machine-creatures become the subject in Choe's work. These dynamic forms bear emotion and have anthropological roots, despite their streamlined metallic sheen. Narratives authored by the artist complement his 3-dimensional designs and drawings.

bitforms - Link.

Update: Here are the videos: one, two.

Here are our photos and a bit about the place...

"The Steel Yard is located at the historic Providence Steel and Iron site, along the Woonasquatucket River in the heart of Providence's industrial Valley neighborhood. With a 5612 square foot industrial shop featuring a foundry, ceramics studio, blacksmithing shop, and welding shop, as well as studio space and outdoor work and exhibition space, the Steel Yard is a multi-use venue. The Steel Yard's program areas, focusing on arts education, the incubation of new business and arts initiatives, and the establishment of a lasting community arts resource, cater to working artists, students and community members, tradespeople, arts educators and entrepreneurs.

For the entrepreneur, the Steel Yard can furnish the workspace and functional resources needed to develop new products or commissions."

More:

• The Steel Yard - Providence, RI - Link.
• Photos - Link.

Anders writes-

"Here are some photos of the table I just built for my living room. It's based on a Rover 3.5l V8 aluminum engine block, with a stand made of mahogany." - Link.

Great work!

Related:

• Street art google map - Link.

" A vast amount of information in the shape of index graphs is constantly being created at the different stock markets of the world. In the project "NASDAQ vocal index" the graphs of companies listed on the NASDAQ are transformed into music. Computer software converts the graphs to sheets of music, and the scores are presented online on a projection screen, to be read and sung by a member of a local choir. Every company has got its own voice and together the choir vocally interprets the current situation on the market." [via] - Link & video.

"This is my second attempt at sending out an acrylic postcard. I learned a few things the last time with the split-etched card even if it did successfully reach its destination." - Link.

Related:

• HOW TO - Make a bendy fabric postcard - Link.
• DIY Postcards with Delivr - Link.
• Mail at 33 1/3 RPM: The Record Etch - Link.

I don't know much about this, but it looks cool! - Link

Everybody rock now. Hal Taylor makes comfy rocking chairs for the whole family. [via] - Link

"I saw all the ping pong tables on the make blog and I thought my Pong Table would fit in there, too. It is made of Corian, has about 2500 LEDs embedded, run by a couple of PIC microcontrollers with two hidden track pads on either end as input devices. When switched off, non of this technology is visible, the table can be used as a normal dining table. The LEDs shine through the material and the trackpads work through the material, too.

Have a look through my website... there are more make-compatible projects like robotic dresses, a roulette table, text message chandelier etc." - Link.

"How to make your own PCB on free postal labels using conductive ink, epoxy and a few parts. By PCB I mean, Post-Circuit Board: as in enter the age of circuits painted on walls. And also because its on postage. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor law nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their self-appointed rounds. Lets all Go Postal." - Video & how-to.

"I saw your ping pong table art post today, and thought you'd like this ping pond table by Gabriel Orozco. Here's a detail from the Tate." - Link.

Related:

• Ping pong table art... - Link.

"...Even now the Triforium has been drawing praise and scorn, most recently from the City Attorney's office which has been claiming that the music is disturbing them and has requested it only play from 11am to 1pm, which completely defeats the purpose of having the lights on, as you can hardly see them during the day. Although many art critics despise the sculpture I find it strangely charming and the primitive computer control system intrigues me.

When we looked through the control center today we found an old Teletype machine that was used to read and write punch tape which held the program the Triforium's computer used to synchronize with music..." [via] - Link & gallery.