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This is the Incom T-70 X-Wing quadrocopter built by Star Wars fan and French quadrocopter hobbyist Olivier C (previously: a TIE Interceptor and Millennium Falcon). Does everybody already own a quadrocopter by now? I still don't have one. Do you have one? Can I play with yours? I promise I won't crash it. *flies directly into power lines, explodes* Technically that was your fault for believing me. Hit the jump for closeup and a video, then somebody build a quadrocopter T-16 so we can bullseye womprats back home. Thanks to Marcus O, who's hard at work building a landspeeder quadrocopter. Heck yeah, fly it into my shins.

Although he’s only been painting murals for less than three years, Belgian street artist Dzia has already established a disinctive style and an impressive body of work. The artist most frequently paints depictions of animals and insects in colorful patterns of lines that resemble something like a mosaic. Dzia recently collaborated with artist Gijs Vanee on a series of window pieces at Harmonie Park, and you can follow more his latest work on Instagram. (via My Modern Met)

Collaboration with Gijs Vanhee

Collaboration with Gijs Vanhee

This is not a rainbow. Minute Physics via Youtube

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Each Saturday Morning here at Adafruit is Saturday Morning Cartoons! Be sure to check our cartoon and animated posts both nostalgic and new that inspire makers of all ages! You’ll find how-tos for young makers, approaches to learning about science and engineering, and all sorts of comic strip and animated Saturday Morning fun! Be sure to check out our Adafruit products featuring comic book art while you’re at it!

This is OK Go's music video for their latest single, 'Writing's on the Wall'. It's constant optical illusions. Unfortunately, I have a splitting headache so it was kind of painful for me to watch, but I could still APPRECIATE it. Like a statue of a naked man at a museum, but with less trying to take a picture holding his penis while security isn't looking. I have a whole Facebook album. Keep going for the worthwhile eye-tricking video. Thanks to Cyndi, who isn't convinced OK Go isn't more of a video group than a band.

The geometry of folding meets fashion in this video for German designer Jule Waibel and her collection of 25 paper dresses. Folded from huge sheets of colorfully designed paper, they were displayed in the shop windows of 25 Bershka flagship stores around the world in January 2014: 25 dresses for 25 cities.

There are more photos of the project on her site.

Watch more videos about clothes and paper. Related watching: origami.

via Fubiz.

Just announced today, The Sand Storm is a short film directed by New York filmmaker Jason Wishnow that was shot completely under the radar in China, starring none other than dissident artist Ai Weiwei in his acting debut. How such an audacious and risky endeavor came into being is pretty mind-blowing given the heavy amount of surveillance surrounding the artist. The movie takes place in a dystopian future where Ai Weiwei plays the role of a smuggler in a world without water.

The existence of The Sand Storm was kept heavily under wraps while shooting in Beijing. Ai Weiwei has been closely watched by the government since his 2011 imprisonment and authorities still have yet to return his passport. While the short film has already been shot beginning to end, the filmmakers are raising a bit of money on Kickstarter to finish the movie and recoup some costs as crowdfunding beforehand was too risky. Had this been announced yesterday I would have assumed it was a hoax.

At the Holz-Handwerk show there are tons of circular saws, tons panel saws and tons of CNC mills. But there's only one Logosol M8 Portable Sawmill. This crazy contraption is something like a chainsaw combined with a tracksaw, and one man (or one Swedish man, anyway) can unload the thing off the roof of his Volvo, carry it into the forest, and start making boards.

You're undoubtedly wondering, from the photos above, how that lone dude got that big-ass log up onto the stand all by himself. It's not just brute strength, there's design involved, as you'll see around 3:08 in the demo video:

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While most photos of children and family put forth a cleaned up and polished look, Alain Laboile takes another approach. He photographs his six children in their natural state - which is often pretty messy - as they play and explore in their Bordeaux, France home. The results are delightfully honest and candid images of good old dirt-between-your-toes fun. See gallery

This is a fake video from HUVrTech featuring Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown), Tony Hawk and a handful of other celebrities (including Terrell Owens and Moby) lying about riding a real hoverboard. The CG is decent, but the whole thing is impossible to believe. Plus they made the hoverboards look exactly like they did in Back to the Future. It mostly served as a painful reminder of just how far technology hasn't come since the movie came out. I'm going back to bed. Keep going for the video. Thanks to Teddy B, outspire, Jackie, Ford, RunnerJive, BIFF, wanderer33third, Chris P, Patrick and anybody else who didn't include 'hoverboard' in the title of their email, who sadly agree humanity will meet its end before we ever invent hoverboards.

In the mid-1920s cinema technician, filmmaker, and cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene traveled across the UK with a new color film camera to create his famous collection of films, The Open Road. The filmmaker’s trip culminated in London with scenes that captured the daily life of Londoners as well as several iconic cityscapes. The films were restored in 2005 by the BFI and circulated widely online.

Fast forward 86 years later. Starting early last year filmmaker Simon Smith, armed with his own camera, traversed the footsteps of Friese-Greene to make his own film. The result is uncanny. Smith matched the original films shot by shot, mimicking the timing and angle almost perfectly for nearly 6 minutes of footage. While the differences between London of 1926 and 2013 are easy to spot when viewing the films side-by-side, what’s more amazing are the similarities. While clothing styles and car designs changed a bit, it’s almost impossible to tell some of these shots apart if it weren’t for the quality of the film. Watch it and see. (via Stellar)

The essence of levitation technology is the countervailing of gravity. It is known that an ultrasound standing wave is capable of suspending small particles at its sound pressure nodes and, so far, this method has been used to levitate lightweight particles, small creatures, and water droplets.

The acoustic axis of the ultrasound beam in these previous studies was parallel to the gravitational force, and the levitated objects were manipulated along the fixed axis (i.e. one-dimensionally) by controlling the phases or frequencies of bolted Langevin-type transducers. In the present study, we considered extended acoustic manipulation whereby millimetre-sized particles were levitated and moved three-dimensionally by localised ultrasonic standing waves, which were generated by ultrasonic phased arrays. Our manipulation system has two original features. One is the direction of the ultrasound beam, which is arbitrary because the force acting toward its centre is also utilised. The other is the manipulation principle by which a localised standing wave is generated at an arbitrary position and moved three-dimensionally by opposed and ultrasonic phased arrays. We experimentally confirmed that various materials could be manipulated by our proposed method.

Photo by Gianluca Giannone courtesy Blinking City

Photo by Gianluca Giannone courtesy Blinking City

Photo by Gianluca Giannone courtesy Blinking City

Photo by Gianluca Giannone courtesy Blinking City

Photo by Gianluca Giannone courtesy Blinking City

Photo by Gianluca Giannone courtesy Blinking City

Photo by Gianluca Giannone courtesy Blinking City>

Photo by Gianluca Giannone courtesy Blinking City

When he was just 16 years old Luigi Prina entered and won a national aircraft modeling competition. When he went to collect the prize money the organizers asked the boy why his father couldn’t come and collect it himself. Nearly fifty years later the now successful architect met a painter and boat builder named Eugenio Tomiolo and while they were talking made a bet that perhaps Prina could take one of his small model ships and make it fly like an airplane. Tomolio accepted and it wasn’t long before a small flying boat was whirring in circles around his small studio that coincidentally had clouds painted on the ceiling. A new passion was born and Prina has since dedicated nearly 20 years of his later life to building flying model boats, bicycles and other unconventional aircraft.

The folks over at Blinking City along with photographer Gianluca Giannone recently sat down with the model building for this beatiful photo essay and video. (thnx, Andrea!)

This is a short video about the physics of fire ant movement produced by The New York Times. When poured through a funnel, the ants flow like a liquid. When a ball of them is pressed down, they act like an elastic solid. When a jarful is poured on the crotch of an enemy, that person realizes you're not the sort of person to be f***ed with. Keep going for the short video. Thanks to PYY, who agrees it would be even cooler if fire ants could also act less like stinging @$$holes all the time.

"QUANTUM SHOT" #174(rev) Link - article by Avi Abrams A bizarre cross between a hovercraft and an airplane, developed during the Cold War They hover and skim above the water at speeds of up to 250 miles an hour, while carrying heavier loads of cargo and troops than any airplane could - the Ekranoplans, or "Wing-in-Ground" (WIG) vehicles are possibly the most exciting and strange-looking transportation technology ever invented by men. Developed mostly by the Soviets during the Cold War (by the Rostislav Alexeev design firm), some ekranoplans were over 500 feet in length and had the estimated weight of over 500 tons! And yet they skimmed over the waves with grace, at high speeds, able to negotiate stormy conditions, and unseen by the radar - all thanks to the aerodynamic principle known as the "ground effect". (derelict Lun-class Soviet ekranoplan at Kaspiysk Naval Base, Russia - images via) Most pilots will be familiar with this effect: when an airplane is about to land, sometimes it almost wants to "float" on air, moments before touchdown. The compressed air between the airplane's wing and the ground becomes a sort of "cushion" that gives the plane the ability to glide smoothly. This effect will be even more noticeable if repeated over the sea surface. 1. KM - the Russian "Caspian Sea Monster" Ekranoplan "KM" was the biggest ground-effect vehicle ever designed (100 meters long, weight: 544 tons, powered by ten Dobryin VD-7 turbojet engines). It still holds the record for lifting the heaviest load off the ground (which is even more than what the largest modern cargo plane Antonov An 225 "Mriya" can handle). For a long time, it was surrounded by an air of mystery, being developed and tested in secrecy on the Caspian Sea in 1966, and only later discovered by a US spy satellite. Although only one "KM" prototype ship has been built, there were several variations differing in length and weight. All were intimidating in size and pretty weird-looking, designed to specifically use the "wing-in-ground effect" to skim the waves at highest possible speeds, undetected by radar. According to military sources, the Soviet government had plans to built one hundred of these monsters at the height of the Cold War, but then this number fell to twenty four projected machines. (images credit: The WIG Page and Samolet) After an accidental crash (due mostly to poor visibility in fog conditions), KM was abandoned in a shallow expanse of water, thwarting all the efforts to recover it (mostly due to its significant weight); and its high tail has been sticking out of the water (like a ghastly funeral cross) for decades after that. The next model to take its place was "Orlenok" - a medium-sized ekranoplan suitable for military transportation duties. This is the SM-8, a smaller version of KM: 2. The Impressive A-90 "Orlyonok" ("Eaglet") "The 140 tonne, 58 meter long aircraft had its maiden flight in 1972. The A-90 boasted two turbojets and one turboprop engine which propelled it to a speed of 400 km/h for 1,500 km at an cruise altitude of 5-10 meters" (info) And yes, it could travel over the dry land (if need be) in rather spectacular fashion: (images credit: A. Belyaev, The WIG Page) Its cargo capacity was 150 troops and 2 tanks (or rather, smaller-size BTR-60 military vehicles), as evidenced by this picture: (images via) The ekranoplans-hungry Soviet military planned to built twenty of such vehicles, creating a whole new NAVY division in the Baltic Sea. One aircraft has been supplied to the military in 1979, and a total of three A-90s were reportedly still operational in the 1990s, with most sightings in 1993. However, it seems that a couple of crashes (again) stopped the plans for the full deployment of these machines; with one crash being especially spectacular. The craft lost a whole tail section after striking a wave, which nevertheless did not prevent it from "gliding" to the shore using the "ground effect". This amazing feat of air-worthiness still failed to impress Soviet generals and government officials, and the program has been mothballed. UPDATE: "Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the plant responsible for building the Orlyonoks has been entirely privatized. Now called the Volga Shipyard, the Orlyonok is apparently still being developed as a commercial "search and rescue" craft. In fact, it appears that the Orlyonok can be ordered in either cargo-carrying (50 tons with a 1500km range) or in passenger-carrying (30 people and a 3000km range) versions - what's more, the yard lists it as a production model!" (source) 3. Strange intermediate designs: the VVA-14M The "VVA-14M" ekranoplan was essentially a conversion from the similarly strange-looking plane "VVA-14". Here's how it looked before the conversion: ...and after the conversion, in cruising mode: (images credit: Ronald Wong, The WIG Page) 4. The "Lun (Spasatel)" (1987) was bigger than the KM "Sea Monster" - and way more dangerous! The 280 tonne, 74 meter long M-160 Lun was another ekranoplan developed from Alexeev designs, built in 1987-1989: (images courtesy: Paul McDonell) It was actually bigger than the Boeing-747 Jumbo jet! - (top image credit: Peter C Losi - United States Air Force) What's more, it was equipped with unparalleled to this day ZM-80 "Moskit" (SS-N-22 Sunburn) supersonic rockets, capable of sinking any enemy ship at a ridiculous distance. This machine would've ended up to be a formidable threat to NATO, if not for the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union. Insufficient funds prevented further research, and the overall decline of the Soviet Union had sunk this project altogether - although some efforts have been made to convert the "Lun / Spasatel" into a sea rescue vessel. (images via) Here is the civilian version of the "Spasatel": (image source) Also check out this interesting concept, which almost made it into production: All these, and other variations of the Russian ekranoplans can be seen in this long video (10 minutes of great, rare footage): (link) In this video you can also see the presently sad condition of the only remaining Russian giant "Lun" craft, stored at the Kaspiysk Naval Base... Maybe some "crazy scientist", or perhaps an investor, see it on eBay, decide to pay the minimum bid and put this thing into action again?? Here is the "swan song" of Rostislav Alexeev, a final concept for the "Rocket-2" river cruise ship: (art credit: A. Sukhov, via) Similarly designed American concepts: The Legendary "Wingships" Plan American aeronautical engineer Steven Hooker first observed the Caspian Monster in 1967 and went on to establish the "Aerocon" company - with a dream to manufacture giant American-made "wingships" - ten times bigger and truly trans-oceanic in range. Here is the proposed "Aerocon Wingship" concept from 1984 - note, that it is bigger than twelve Boeing 747's put together! "Atlantis - 1": (image credit: Popular Science) It remains to be seen whether this gargantuan ship can be built in the distant future; for years, the US NAVY has been (sort-of) considering another prototype: The "Boeing Ultra Pelican" - American (belated) answer to the "Caspian Sea Monster" Look at the size of this conceptual boat! It can truly be called the "Large Transport Aircraft": with its capacity to carry 1,400 tons (as many as 17 tanks plus a few hundred soldiers) to a distance of over 16,000 km. This spectacular machine boasts a wingspan of 106 meters (about 350 feet) and a length of 152 meters (longer than a standard football field). In addition, this craft would be 10 times faster than any modern container ship. (sources: 1, 2, 3) "The vessel will be able to travel in ground-effect at a height of about 20 feet above the water surface for its most economical mode of operation, but will also be capable of entering free-flight and flying at an altitude of 20,000 feet." If this craft's development proceeds unimpeded, then the military dream of the "deployment of one division in five days anywhere in the world" has a chance to be realized. You could run from this ship, but you would not be able to hide. The Wingship's potential for strategic lift will be almost unlimited. What's more, its operating efficiency (the amount of cargo divided by the consumed fuel) will be 44 per cent better than modern cargo airplanes! The Wingship seems to be an achievable technology, and if a successful prototype will ever get to be built (perhaps smaller in size, or as a Russian-American joint effort) - it could potentially open the new era in transportation: the exciting blend of sea and air travel, both efficient and unutterably cool. At this point in time, though, we only see plans for building larger and larger cruise ships and bigger airliners, without much consideration for operating efficiency. Article by Avi Abrams, Dark Roasted Blend. GO TO PAGE TWO! -> READ THE WHOLE "EKRANOPLANS & HYDROFOILS" SERIES! ->

One more for today, via new Gizmodo-spinoff Sploid: We took note of filmmaker Kirby Ferguson's "Everything is a Remix" project when it launched in 2011; given his thesis—that art and innovation increasingly consists of merely recombining existing ideas in novel ways—it will only become more true as time marches on. Ferguson has just revisited the project with a one-off case study on the iPhone, and while it's definitely worth watching, it does feel a bit like armchair analysis—dissecting these specimens (see also: the viral "Was iOS7 created in Microsoft Word?" vid) or, say, identifying all of the samples in a Girl Talk album is, as the clich&ecute; goes, to miss the forest for the trees, and overlook the seamlessness of the the system as a whole (which, as we all know, was Jobs' genius in the first place).

That said, it's nice to see all of the reference points in one place, and unlike the latter example, in which the DJ's All Day actually boosted sales of its source material, hardware is a zero-sum game. As an immaterial good, we hear or listen to dozens, if not hundreds, of songs every day; most of us only own a single phone.

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Long gone are the days of shooting stretchy rubber bands from the crook of your hand, obviously. Ukrainian designer Alexander Shpetniy has created a model that'll give you second thoughts about the damage the stretchy bands can do. His design, Rubber Band Machine Gun (RBMG) may look like some sort of strange, modern sculptural piece, but it's actually a pretty intimidating rubber band shooter that might be a bit more pain-inflicting than the usual finger shooter.

The fully automatic device is made of CNC-cut plywood and comes in three different finishes: light wood, black and burnt wood color. While the natural finish of the design is a welcome change from the plastic rainbow-hued toys we generally see in this genre, its capabilities are the real points of interest.

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With three wheels, pneumatic motors, and driven by a joystick, this ladybug of a car is compelling for both its unusual form and its power source: compressed air. The AIRPod was developed as a sustainable, zero-emission solution for urban commuting, airport vehicles, messenger services, and more. Initially conceived of in 1991 and promised for production since 2000, the car is finally expected to be on sale for around 7,000 euros sometime in 2014. Via Core77:

One tank lasts over 125 miles (200 km) and takes only two minutes to fill up again at an average price of just one euro per fill.

Bonus: the eco-friendly engine technology can be built into boats, backup generators, farm machines, and more.

In the archives, more cars and more sustainability videos, including these two jaw-dropping favorites: an air-powered LEGO car, behind-the-scenes at the Tesla factory and the Moser Lamp.

“Balance from Within”, initiated in 2010 by STUDIO artist-in-residence Jacob Tonski, is a 170-year-old sofa which uses an internal robotic mechanism to balance precariously on one leg, continuously teetering, responding internally to external forces. The piece was recently completed and exhibited at the 2013 FILE festival in Brazil.

Via Smithsonian.com

Potatoes are not only delicious, easy to grow and easy to store but scientists are now finding that their power potential is bigger than they had previously thought.

A couple years ago, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem released their finding that a potato boiled for eight minutes can make for a battery that produces ten times the power of a raw one. Using small units comprised of a quarter-slice of potato sandwiched between a copper cathode and a zinc anode that’s connected by a wire, agricultural science professor Haim Rabinowitch and his team wanted to prove that a system that can be used to provide rooms with LED-powered lighting for as long as 40 days. At around one-tenth the cost of a typical AA battery, a potato could supply power for cell phone and other personal electronics in poor, underdeveloped and remote regions without access to a power grid.

To be clear, the potato is not, in and of itself, an energy source. What the potato does is simply help conduct electricity by acting as what’s called a salt-bridge between the the two metals, allowing the electron current to move freely across the wire to create electricity. Numerous fruits rich in electrolytes like bananas and strawberries can also form this chemical reaction. They’re basically nature’s version of battery acid.The potato battery kit, which includes two metal electrodes and alligator clips, is easy to assemble and, some parts, such as the zinc cathode, can be inexpensively replaced. The finished device Rabinowitch came up with is designed so that a new boiled potato slice can be inserted in between the electrodes after the potato runs out of juice. Alligator clips that transport the current carrying wires are attached to the electrodes and the negative and positive input points of the light bulb. Compared to kerosene lamps used in many developing parts of the world, the system can provide equivalent lighting at one-sixth the cost; it’s estimated to be somewhere around $9 per kilowatt hour and a D cell battery, for another point of comparison, can run as much as $84 per kilowatt hour.

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When I first saw this giant rotating ice disk spotted in North Dakota this week, I assumed it had to be some kind of human-created object, perhaps a new piece by famed land artist Andy Goldsworthy. The video above was shot by retired engineer George Loegering while hiking along the Sheyenne River. He estimates the rotating disk was some 55 feet in diameter and must have been forming for some time. The St. Paul Pioneer Press spoke with National Weather Service hydrologist Allen Schlag:

The cold, dense air—the air pressure Saturday in nearby Fargo was a record high for the city for the month of November, according to Gust—turned the river water into ice, but since the water was relatively warm it didn’t happen all at once. Floating bits of ice got caught in the eddy and started to spin in a circle.

“It’s not a continuous sheet of ice,” Schlag said. “If you were to throw a grapefruit-size rock on it, it would go through. It’s not a solid piece of ice—it’s a collection of ice cubes.”

Photo by Brook Tyler

Photo by Pål Sigurd

Photo by Evan Gregg / Reservoir Productions

Although extremely rare, ice disks do indeed appear naturally from time to time when conditions are perfect. Above are a few examples of people who have been lucky enough to stumble onto one while holding a camera. Learn more over on St. Paul Pioneer Press. (thnx Ben + all)

Amazing resource! How to make animatronic eye mechanisms – Design, 3D Printing and Assembly from the Stan Winston School of Character Arts:

Stan Winston Studio veteran and key mechanical effects designer at leading Creature FX studio, Legacy Effects, David Covarrubias (Avatar, Iron Man, The Lost World: Jurassic Park) shows you how to design, 3D print and assemble an animatronic eye mechanism using free CAD software and an affordable 3D printer.

In this innovative tutorial, you’ll learn how you can begin your adventures into animatronics without the need for the expensive machinery usually required to shape metal: C&C mills, water jet metal cutters, lathes, etc.

The resulting 3D Printed Eye Mechanism is as elegant and effective as those created by Covarrubias for Hollywood blockbusters, but can be achieved at a fraction of the cost.

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If your party guests are people who you'd like to remain friends with then maybe it's for the best if you don't have time to make these Q-tips and earwax appetizers from The Food In My Beard, but these look so gross that they're totally making my holiday anyway.

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Fluid jets can suspend light balls in the air in a display of hydro gymnastics. This video is one of several entries to the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics annual Gallery of Fluid Motion.

Seen here eyeballing two hunks, Galdalf the Grey demonstrates his 'You Shall Not Pass' spell on the Bow Bridge in Central Park. SPOILER: Everybody passes. One dude even casts a Harry Potter spell on him as he goes by. If there had been an actual Balrog on one end of that bridge it would definitely be picking Hobbits out of its teeth right now. Keep going for the video. Thanks to lilco, who agrees Gandalf may need to lay off the magic tobacco for awhile and hit the spell books harder.

Via Kyle Vanhemert at wired.com:

The first time Dan Grayber built a beautiful, useless thing that held itself up was in 1998, at Hampshire College, in Massachusetts. He was a senior who’d dabbled in sculpture and product design, though when it came to the latter, he’d continually been frustrated by what he saw as the contrived nature of building things expressly to solve problems. “It seemed to be a bunch of people grasping for ideas to force some utility into,” he says of those early invention-centric courses. “With the first sculptures that held themselves up, I felt like I was getting rid of all of the aspects of the invention process I didn’t like.”

In 2004, Grayber began a several-year inquiry into mechanisms that clung to walls in one way or another–contraptions that used springs and weights and counterweights to claw their way into gallery drywall. In 2008, he built a spring-loaded gizmo that wedged itself inside a glass vitrine. That one felt right, and he’s been doing variations on the theme ever since.

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Comicbookgirl19 put together this fantastic cardboard and papercraft cosplay RoboCop, love the subtle spinning flame at the end of the weapon!

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Each weekday this month we’ll be bringing you ideas and projects for an Electronic Halloween! Expect wearables, hacks & mods, costumes and more here on the Adafruit blog! Working on a project for Halloween this year? Share it with us on Google+, in the comments below, the Adafruit forums, Facebook, or Twitter– we’d love to see what you’re up to and share it with the world (tag your posts #ElectronicHalloween). Tune in to our live shows, Wearable Electronics with Becky Stern and Ask an Engineer, where Adafruit store discount codes are announced– get the most bang for your Halloween buck!

Over the last two years or so artist Tec has taken to the streets of São Paulo, literally, to paint several large-scale works of crawling animals and people. You can see several more of the giant pieces that run almost the length of a city blocks over on Flickr. If you liked this also check out the work of Roadsworth. (via Wooster Collective, This Isn’t Happiness)

Armed with a pair of humble wooden chopsticks, a .74 cent plastic comb, and a few other minor modifications, Canadian musician James Hill can convert his ukulele into a ridiculous beat machine. Hill mimics a wide range of rhythmic genres from techno to hip hop in this brief clip shot at a sold-out 2011 show at Don Quixote’s International Music Hall in Felton, California. There’s a lot of build-up and preparation, the music starts around 3:45. (via Devour)

Anytime you dump gobs of colorful paint on toys and add liberal amounts of centrifugal force, I’m in. Such is the case with these high speed images shot by photographer Peter Schafrick of paint-soaked Barbie dolls, dog chew toys, and tennis balls. Schafrick created a special rig dubbed the Spinster that allows him to quickly launch each dripping object into a spin at which point he snaps a shot. See more here.