Ciclotrama 115

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Whether inspired by human blood vessels, complicated computer systems or the entwining roots of trees, Janaina Mello Landini loves to craft networks of her own, using nylon rope in a rainbow of different colours.

In one particular artwork, Ciclotrama 115, the Sao Paulo artist begins her installation on a giant canvas, weaving the thinnest of threads in red, blue, green and grey onto its surface before increasing the thickness of the material to eventually draw it away from the hanging artwork to end in four separate piles of heavy rope.

Born in São Gotardo, Janaina graduated in Architecture in 1999 and studied Fine Arts from 2004 to 2007, both at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Her work encompasses her knowledge of architecture, physics and mathematics and her observations about time, and her installations vary from object to public space. Discover more at mellolandini.com or follow her on Instagram. Thanks to Colossal for the discovery.

See more of her beautiful work!

NEW GUIDE: Crickit Snake Bot #AdafruitLearningSystem #Crickit @adafruit

A new guide in the Adafruit Learning System by Dave Astels – this project guides you through building a robot that can wander around your floor. This riffs on John Park’s Crickit Carnival Bumper Bot. The difference is that the project progresses through several levels, starting with a very basic bot and adding capabilities.

Build this cute bot using this new guide!

The Scream: Interactive Screaming Painting

When Edvard Munch painted his most famous painting, The Scream, in 1893 he perfectly captured the existential angst of modern humanity. He did not, however, have access to a microcontroller board with built-in sound sensing connected to a servo motor and speaker, so he failed to make his masterpiece interactive.

Today, we’ll change all of that! By using the Crickit with Circuit Playground Express, and a bit of code in CircuitPython, we can make The Scream scream back at you when you scream at it!

By Edvard Munch - National Gallery of Norway, Public Domain, https://ift.tt/2v0s3G0

In addition to the parts above, you’ll need:

• Two copies of the painting printed on a color printer
• Corrugated cardboard
• Cardstock
• Chipboard (thin cardboard)
• Frame and mat with cardboard backing
• Scrap wood for standoffs
• Glue stick for paper
• High temp hot melt glue and glue gun, or wood glue and clamps
• Frame hanging hooks and hardware
• Hobby knife
• Straight edge

NEW GUIDE: Talking Musical NeoPixel Clock #AdafruitLearningSystem

A beautiful use of the 60 LED NeoPixel ring as a clock that also talks! This all new project uses the Adafruit Feather M0 Bluefruit LE board for both brains and Bluetooth communications. You can also add an optional infrared receiver to interact with the clock with a remote. The Swiss Army of clocks.

The guide has step by step instructions, full code written for the Arduino IDE, and wave files for the voice.

See this new guide in the Adafruit Learning System!

 

NEW GUIDE: Talking Musical NeoPixel Clock #AdafruitLearningSystem

A beautiful use of the 60 LED NeoPixel ring as a clock that also talks! This all new project uses the Adafruit Feather M0 Bluefruit LE board for both brains and Bluetooth communications. You can also add an optional infrared receiver to interact with the clock with a remote. The Swiss Army of clocks.

The guide has step by step instructions, full code written for the Arduino IDE, and wave files for the voice.

See this new guide in the Adafruit Learning System!

 

What a conductor actually does on stage #MusicMonday

I’ve definitely wondered about this…

Fun video from Vox.

If you’ve ever seen an orchestra perform you’ve probably had a difficult time looking away from the person dead center on the stage – the conductor. It’s hard to miss someone as they swing their arms around pointing at the musicians that seem to be focused instead on their music stands. So what exactly is the conductor doing?

Read more.

Vintage Nixie Alarm Clock

Really cool looking project shared by mooky69 on Instructables:

When I came across this old wooden door bell at a boot sale I thought that it would make a great case for a nixie clock. I opened it, and found that the large transformer and solenoids that makes the bell ring, occupy most of the space. My initial idea was to strip it all out and use some other method of alarm. But after a bit of pondering I thought perhaps it’s possible.

Challenge accepted !!!

As this clock uses several up-cycled parts and components which you may not be able to find exact pieces, this instructable is a guide to creating something similar.

Old bells like this were made by different companies for different uses; Hotels, shops and telephone extensions. This one had a large transformer coil, so I guess it was probably a telephone extension bell used in a large shop or factory.

Disconnect and unscrew the transformer. (Don’t be tempted to connect it to the mains power. It will probably catch fire) Once removed you can now begin to test the solenoids which actually make the bell ring.

Learn more!