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  • LED Throwies 2

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    LED Throwies 2

    by koibito on Jun 10, 2009 | No Comments

    LED Throwies are an open source graffiti technology developed at the Graffiti Research Lab, a division of the Eyebeam OpenLab. Click here for instructions on how to make your own Throwies.

    Posted in Make, Performance, Videos

  • The ultimate diggbait: Digg the Physical

    by koibito on Apr 20, 2007 | No Comments

    The Digg button is a very simple beginner electronics that teaches how to solder and program microcontroller. Once made, this basic electronic project mimics the popular Digg.com website: each time you push the button, the button flashes “Dug” and increments the counter up to 999 “diggs”. The project is completely open source, and documented here [...]

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  • COOLLIGHT – Winner of House Party Design Competition

    by koibito on Dec 22, 2006 | No Comments

    Recently,  designboom had a “house party” design competition, and after looking at 3070 designers from 89 different countries, they decided on the top 3. Wen-Haur Yen from Taiwan took first place and in his own words describes his invention: COOLIGHT combines a handle and a steel cylinder filled with cryogen. When you need an ice [...]

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  • LED Bonsai Tree

    by koibito on Apr 21, 2006 | No Comments

    If you like technology and if you like traditional Japanese art, you should try to build your own LED bonsai tree. There is one simple tutorial that describe one cool way to make it using 1152 LED’s and 256 resistors. The base is a flower pot and a disk of wood with a ring of [...]

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