Dividing the darkness, down to the misty sub-structure, it leapt. Mechanical echo of rusted legs and a daggered stench spilled the pathway’s lair. And deeper still, lying in mud and time, the chalice, filled with the oil of these links. Aaron Beck – Concept artist and phenomenal painter, illustrator and photographer. Plenty of bots and…
There are two things that will make your fingernubs smile. One is slamming them fist first into fresh strawberry jam. The other, a wearable 3D mouse… that fits on your fingertip. Now, it could be that you’ll interface with machines with a device that hangs around your neck, but a four-button 3D mouse with programmable gestures that slips around your fingertip and is developed to interact with the 3D models/environment you enjoy? That’s impressive. Nick Mastandrea of Innovative Developments is the brains behind the possibilities. His product is called the Mycestro. We spoke with Nick about how the idea came about and where the technology is headed.
There are some robots that take me back to my childhood, like this skateboard-mounted, paint-spraying graffiti machine whipping an arduino-driven pendulum arm around. Not that I went around spray-painting objects, but that I was often attached to a pendulum arm, but who wasn’t, right? It’s just the sort of thing that may have inspired So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi to create this artsy automaton. The Senseless drawing bot is an art installation, and as with all art installations of this variety, interprets the act of vandalism in a pure, programmatic fashion.
If you haven’t seen the cranium-scorching, rendering research of Kevin Karsch, watch it, we’ll wait… Now that your brain is charred and crumbling like so much burnt popcorn, you can well understand why, after seeing this video, we had to get the low-down from Kevin himself. So… we blind folded him, spun him around, drugged him, packed him in a shipping container, and shipped him off to SolidSmack HQ for questioning (not true). While image-based modeling isn’t unheard of, Kevin and team are approaching new ways of inserting 3D objects into 2D scenes, and as Kevin explains, images are just the beginning.
You’ve got loads of ideas from portable candy launchers to cheese grating iPhone cases, but steps in the process (and your evil arch-nemesis Tim “criticizes everything” Jerksteen) has got your design mojo, motionless. Never fear! Another idea funding, “slam that design process in the face,” product site is here and it’s absolutely delicious… in fact, it’s Ideacious. While it has similarities to what you may have seen, they’re setting this up to be a shop that cuts through the craziness involved along the product production path and they’ve laid it all out very well. Take a look.