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Macchina poetica converts sounds into onomatopoeic words

Macchina Poetica is a digital prototype converting sounds into onomatopoeic words and images and it’s inspired by the art of the Futurism movement. Futurism is a modernist, avant-garde artistic movement originated in Italy in the early 20th century. Thanks to sound representation, Futurism artists aimed to emphasize speed, technology, youth and violence, all concepts arising from industrial […]

Hacking a vintage Star Wars AT-AT toy to walk with Arduino

Dave Stein is a software engineer during the day and a tinkerer in his free time after work. For his first Arduino project, the Maker set out to modify an old AT-AT Walker toy (from the mid-1980s) using an Arduino Uno and an Adafruit servo shield so that it could walk and perform some of the functions as seen in the Star Wars movies. For those unfamiliar […]