441 Perfectly Sphere Water Droplets Aligned to a Grid
June 10th, 2011
— [pe lang] shares a system to spill water drops over a surface: many different uses from medical to artistic purposes.
achine that adds drops of water onto a special textured surface. Each drop forms into an almost perfect sphere through the surface tension of the water and the omniphopic Material. The electronically controlled pipette wanders through a square grid of 21 x 21 drops to form a micro-matrix and returns to the beginning. After approximately 300 minutes, and when thewater drops have evaporated, the same process starts again.
Via [Gizmodo], source [Arduino Forum]
June 10th, 2011 at 15:59:04
[…] 41 Perfectly Sphere Water Droplets Aligned to a Grid… achine that adds drops of water onto a special textured surface. Each drop forms into an almost perfect sphere through the surface tension of the water and the omniphopic Material. The electronically controlled pipette wanders through a square grid of 21 x 21 drops to form a micro-matrix and returns to the beginning. After approximately 300 minutes, and when thewater drops have evaporated, the same process starts again. Filed under: arduino,art — by adafruit, posted June 10, 2011 at 11:58 am Comments (0) […]
June 12th, 2011 at 20:30:59
Wonderful artistic and practical use of materials science and an MCU. Now let’s get your invention into a zero-G environment and make, easily, lots of perface spheres. Lots of need for those. If only simply for ball bearings! Beautiful application!
June 12th, 2011 at 21:43:39
Wow, perfect! And where is the connection with Arduino?