2012/08/13

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Toy Vehicles from Plastic Bottles
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Light Painting with Raspberry Pi
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Toy Vehicles from Plastic Bottles

It’s amazing what magic can be cast with an empty detergent bottle, some bottle caps, and a flourish of paint. Martine Camillieri is a found objects artist who created this fleet of impressive toy cars and trucks from little more than those materials.

Filed under: Art, Remake, Toys and Games

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MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup

This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…

Fluorescent Ambient Lighting from dujoducom.

Interlocking cubes from hudson.

usb charger to fit a car lighter socket from h080.

Clear from dujoducom.

Multiformat Pinhole camera from DIY Effixe.

Fluorescent Black Lighting from dujoducom.

lawnbike from AliveAfter.com.

Filed under: Makers, Photography

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Light Painting with Raspberry Pi

Adafruit’s Phillip Burgess posted this fantastic tutorial to their Learning System on how to use Raspberry Pi to paint with light. We’ve covered this technique before and it involves setting a long exposure on the camera and using moving light sources to “paint” within the frame. When you involve computer- or microcontroller-controlled LED strips in the process, you can get some astounding results. This project relies on a Raspberry Pi loaded up with Adafruit’s own distro, Occidentalis, which includes the necessary hardware SPI support for the LED strips.

Simply porting this project to Raspberry Pi wasn’t enough for Phillip, so he put another spin on it. Instead of a straight LED strip, he attached it around the circumference of a hula hoop and braced it with PVC pipe. He attached the rig to his trike and now he can ride the streets, painting with light: