LED Bonsai Tree
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 holes for the wire “roots” to pass through. The wood is resined into the flower pot which is topped up with a mixture of peat and PVA to form a hard soil-like surface.
“The number of flowers was chosen to be a binary multiple to make it easier to twist the wire together in a way that allows pairs of branches to combine progressively until there is just one big trunk of 256 wires going into the base. All 256 wires are electrically functional and were colour coded brown for +ve and green for -ve to make wiring easier while giving a natural appearance(!).”
Night Writer
One more great “How To” is comming from The Graffiti Research Lab. The Graffiti Research Lab is dedicated to outfitting graffiti writers, artist and protestors with open source technologies for urban communication.
The night writer extends the functionality of LED throwies by allowing a writer to catch a tag in lights. It’s cheap, easy to make and writes 12-inch glowing letters 25-feet in the air on any iron or steel surface…if you stand on a turned over garbage can.
Graffiti Research Lab could introduce you in multimedia street art, animation on walls, larger projections etc, but the night writer could show you a way and tools to create your own wall animation.
via: Makezine
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