Stockholm artist Aleksandra Stratimirovic formed the above image from many small containers upon a grid-like shelf -

“Sunny day” is an installation made of 4464 small medical glass vials filled with different coloured liquids, in a sterile laboratory framework with a fluorescent backlight. When taking a couple of steps back the vivid image of a girl appears, standing at a lakeside, with summery blue sky above. Dimensions 2 x 3 meters.

- Aleksandra Stratimirovic “Sunny Day” [via Neatorama]

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Zach writes -

I’m very proud to announce a new board, designed and developed by the RepRap Research Foundation. Its called the Magnetic Rotary Encoder, and it uses a magnet to provide positional feedback information. It is based around the AS5040 chip, and provides 10-bits of resolution per rotation (1024 different positions!) It has 5 different output modes, a 6.1mm hole that fits the magnet for easy aligning, plenty of diagnostic LEDs for coolness, and 6 different mounting holes for ease of use, including GM3 gearmotor mounting holes.

Intended for enhancing the Reprap’s extrusion process, this board looks like a good workout for those surface mount soldering skills. View source files and more - Magnetic Rotary Encoder v1.0

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Make a Reprap Robot Part 1: The Electronics - Weekend Project Podcast

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Meredith Scheff has an interview with scientist/artist Alan Rorie. Alan was involved in the Steampunk Treehouse and the Dihemispheric Chronaether Agitator.

To me, science is largely about taking concrete aspects of the world and abstracting so that they can be communicated. I would spend weeks and months working on my thesis and the result would be some bit of data that only existed on the computer and in the mind of my peers. I realized that I needed to create real objects, things and stuff that existed in the world. Art, to me, is the flip side of science; it’s about taking the abstract ideas that exists in your mind and communicating them by instantiating them in the real world as solid objects.

So I taught myself how to weld.

Portrait of a mad scientist: Alan Rorie of Almostscientific.com

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• Steam-powered time machine
• BBtv climbs into the Steampunk Treehouse

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Fun way to take Google images with you anywhere via NOTCOT.

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Look at this amazing chair by David Karoff, on Rag and Bone Bindery’s blog - they saw it at Myopic Books in Providence, Rhode Island.

Rhode Island artist David Karoff welded the chair and attached the paperbacks: they have holes drilled though their insides and are slipped onto a hidden rebar frame. All of the materials are recycled - even the books, which are cast-offs from the Rochambeau Library Book Sales.

It even looks like it might not be painful to sit in . . .

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