October 31, 2006

Toxic Barrel Pop-Up

You can either make this toxic barrel pop-up or purchase it from the designer. “Industrial air cylinder will be driven by pneumatic valve plumbed to 25psi compressed air. Attachment to PVC cap to hold lid in place. PVC goes through center of styrofoam head with caps on both ends to hold head in place. I detailed the mask with glow-in-the-dark paints to highlight it under blacklight illumination. Final assembly with

UV LED PCB Exposure System

This project shows the creation of a large array of UV LEDs. They are used to expose a presensititised blank circuit board. Another common method is to use UV tubes. Alfredo has translated it to English as well as he could (English is not his first language). This is great since for some reason the good old Google translator could not do much with it. Thanks Alfredo! "Why if we

Interactive Chalkboard

  This technology allows everyday items such as a chalkboard to become interactive. “Sensitive Object attempts particularly to make day to day objects interactive by proposing man-machine interfaces (MMI) that are particularly innovative, which use the sense of touch and adapt to all forms of electric or electronic commands (switches, pushbuttons, keyboard keys, control panels…)”