TED is always an excellent source of inspiration. Arthur Ganson has one of the more magical demonstrations I have ever seen. What a fabulous body of work!

Pixelboard Originally uploaded by Eightlines Sometimes its worth venturing out to a disorganized surplus store to see what you can find. This is my latest little toy. Its a fragment of a pixelboard. Alternate the currents from one pin to the other and you can make the yellow dots flip to black. The ...

One of the devices I'm most excited about lately is the MaxStream XBee. The problem with this seemingly innocuous little device is that it wouldn't behave the way any other tutorial I found said it would. I've been working through three different sources of information on the XBee. The first ...

Sketchbook Mesh Network Originally uploaded by Eightlines Playing around with the Xbee has led to a number of really interesting thoughts and ideas. Part of me is thinking that some of these ideas are far more interesting than the Solenoid project I'm currently working on. I have to keep reminding myself that ...

If anyone had have told me this project would cost slightly in the range of $300 I would have probably not have started it at all. Individually the components don't cost that much, Arduino -- $60, transistors -- $10 for nine of them, copper connectors -- $2, and so on. ...

A little background first. I'm an experienced Origami folder. I understand the concepts of designing, and I've folded some of the more difficult folds out there. I've also taught all ages how to fold and have been known to diagram folds on occasion. A couple of years ago I was in ...