Folding A Life Size Dragon Tamer | Origami Time-Lapse #ArtTuesday

Chris Conrad Art shared this video on Youtube!

Folding a 19×19 ft square of unryu paper into a Life-Size Dragon Tamer, designed by me.

This took over a month to fold, plus a ton of time spent designing the model. It was displayed as part of my exhibit “Paper Meditations” at Haverford College.

Special thanks to Ilana Panth for helping me make the square and fold parts of it, and Haverford College’s Student Art Fund for sponsoring this project.

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Using A 3D Printer To Make A Sandwich

Y K shared on YouTube:

Make sandwiches with a 3D printer

This video shows one of the prototype applications of our research called Functgraph.

Functgraph is a 3D printer that can physically assist the user by assembling the 3D printer’s objects without human intervention, and then running the completed “functional objects”.

For example, in this video, we have prototyped a sandwich application. When cooking, there are many ways to look at recipes, such as on a smartphone, but in the end, a human being has to cook. How much easier would it be if you could just say, “OK Google, I want a sandwich for breakfast tomorrow,” and have it ready when you wake up in the morning? A machine will make the food, so it can be cooked accurately. All you have to do is prepare the ingredients and the freshly prepared food will be ready automatically instead of frozen or instant food.

The “Mother of Yoda” breaks silence on Baby Yoda and more #SciFiSunday

Delightful story from the inverse on the incredible Wendy Froud, a puppeteer who began working in 1970s New York, and whose iconic work remains some of the must recognizable in her field to this day.

You might not recognize the name Wendy Froud (née Midener), but in the practical effects world, she’s a legend. Renowned in film and television as a pioneer in puppetry, Froud was sought out by directors like Jim Henson early in her career and created countless iconic TV and movie creatures. Yet she remains an obscure name rarely credited accurately on film sites or IMDb.

Read more.

How Does a Gugusse Roller Work?

Denis-Carl Robidoux takes viewers through rewinding and loading film and so much more in this video on YouTube, via no film school:

The Gugusse Roller is a DIY machine made to digitalize film.
It can transfer film of any format between 8mm and 35mm

See more

How Does a Gugusse Roller Work?

Denis-Carl Robidoux takes viewers through rewinding and loading film and so much more in this video on YouTube, via no film school:

The Gugusse Roller is a DIY machine made to digitalize film.
It can transfer film of any format between 8mm and 35mm

See more

Raspberry Pi Stranger Things Phone Prop Designed for Season 4 Premiere #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Season 4 is almost here so get dialed into some vintage calls. Guy Dupont created this project for a Stranger Things experience, shared by Tom’s Hardware:

Dupont explains the vintage phone was planned to be positioned in a booth resembling a 1980s pizza shop. What looks like an unassuming prop would occasionally ring. When guests pick up the phone, they would hear random sound bites from the show, scary sound effects and even random pizza orders. Lifting the phone off the hook returns a dial tone sound, the buttons work with an audible sound for each keypress and the speaker will returns a disconnected sound once a number has been dialed.

Learn more!

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Tardis Treasure Hunt #Raspberry pi

 

This maker used Raspberry Pi Pico and LEGO to build a Doctor Who-themed treasure hunt, Via Raspberrypi.com

When Roberto Tyley saw his son’s birthday party exterminated, it ultimately led him to invest time in an amazing Doctor Who-themed treasure hunt, as David Crookes explains.

Last year, many Doctor Who fans embarked on a virtual treasure hunt in a bid to find Jodie Whittaker’s Time Lord. Fast forward to 2022, and maker Roberto Tyley has created a physical hunt – one in which his son, Alexander, was tasked with fixing the TARDIS by finding and entering a series of passphrases with the help of his friends.

The idea evolved over time, sparked by the cancellation of Roberto’s son’s seventh birthday party in 2020. The following year’s bash was held outdoors as a treasure hunt in the local park and the children had to find clues to unlock a LEGO combination safe. “My son loved it so much, he wanted another treasure hunt – but how was I going to top last year’s party?,” Roberto says.

His plan was to hide two screen-based devices in different areas of the park, each taking it in turns to generate passphrases which could then be entered into a treasure safe. By ensuring the devices couldn’t be moved once they were found, the children would need to split into three teams – two by the devices and one by the safe. They’d wait for the passphrases to appear, and co-ordinate the unlocking over their walkie-talkies.

The passphrase devices were made using a couple of Pico-Clock-Green LED-digit electronic clocks fitted with Raspberry Pi Pico boards and programmed so that they would display a series of words. Roberto ditched the safe, however, in favour of a TARDIS built out of LEGO, which he designed using Bricklink’s Studio 2.0.

Learn more!

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