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Tim Hunkin: engineer * cartoonist
Lots of good stuff here. Specialty arcade machines, like a photo booth equipped to distract you while the photo is taken (eg by dropping the seat, or blowing cold air at you); notes and shots for 'The Secret Life of Machines' television program; homemade cameras; various large clocks, etc.
[2004 Oct 25] [/hacks/art] [#]
Jonah Brucker-Cohen's website documenting his many art project hacks. Includes things like an engine that project search terms out its exhaust pipe (called "search engine"), a radio controlled fleet of toy police cars that are triggered by a carnivore like IP traffic sniffer, and a build for $10 bucks or less "Drawbot" that rumbles around on three drawing pens.
[2004 Jan 22] [/hacks/art] [#]
A computer controlled spotlight and acoustic beam system that automatically follows a person through an open area as they move about. Resistent to evasion by fast moving or by walking close to someone else.
[2003 Dec 04] [/hacks/art] [#]
POKIA - retro phone of the future
Pokias are headsets from classic phones adapted to plug into cell phones as hands free headsets. This guy makes them one at a time and sells them on ebay, but I think I'm going to make one for myself.
[2004 Jul 08] [/hacks/hardware] [#]
A mini-itx based computer shoehorned into an old Underwood typewriter. For good measure the original keycaps are glued to a new mini-keyboard and the OS adds sound effects of the original mechanism.
[2004 Mar 22] [/hacks/hardware] [#]
This is an art hack to make an "old-fashioned" (eg, sixties or seveties vintage) record player into a video player for specially produced records. Very cool.
[2004 Mar 08] [/hacks/hardware] [#]
Album and explanation of how this guy turned an old Smith-Corona into a PS/2 computer keyboard. He doesn't explain how hard it is to use lacking things like control and backspace, though.
[2004 Feb 09] [/hacks/hardware] [#]