Waterlight Graffiti
RAS2026-01-07T17:30:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol 94. Subscribe for more great projects. French artist Antonin Fourneau’s interactive exhibit known as Waterlight Graffiti recalls a combination of two classic childhood toys: the Etch A Sketch and Lite Brite. However, to draw on Fourneau’s installation, a wall made of thousands of LED lights, there are no dials to turn or bulbs to plug in — all you need is water. In 2011, Fourneau went to China where he discovered...
January 7, 2026RASUncategorizedart, Art & Sculpture, Craft & Design, graffiti, interactive art, leds, Make940 Comments
Lightweaver – Illuminating Museums and Festivals
RAS2025-12-31T17:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol 94. Subscribe for more great projects. In 8th grade, Todd Moyer fell in love with making after combining a shop class assignment — a little gadget that varied a lightbulb’s voltage in response to audio signals — with his home stereo and some Christmas lights, turning his room into a disco club. “The exhilaration I felt was not just from pretty lights and music, but the feeling of empowerment that came...
December 31, 2025RASUncategorizedart, Art & Sculpture, Craft & Design, interactive art, lights, Made On Earth, Make940 Comments
90’s Techno Art: Rap Caviar
RAS2025-12-26T17:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol 94. Subscribe for more great projects. Over five decades ago, in 1973, DJ Kool Herc changed music forever by using two turntables, each playing the same record, with a mixer to switch between them, in order to extend percussion breaks indefinitely. In the 1980s the “failure” of Roland’s TR-808 to successfully emulate a real drummer was embraced by hiphop and techno pioneers who used its synthetic sound as the bedrock to...
December 26, 2025RASUncategorizedart, Art & Sculpture, Craft & Design, Fun & Games, Made On Earth, Make94, mashup, sculpture, technoart, video games0 Comments
How artist Davide Sgambaro brought “Goosebumps (dark times)” to life with Arduino UNO R4 Minima
RAS2025-11-25T18:33:37+00:00At Arduino, we love seeing creative people use technology in unexpected ways – especially when it shows how accessible tools can empower anyone to bring their idea to life. That includes artists, designers, performers, and people who don’t see themselves as “technical” at all. That’s why we’re proud to have supported Davide Sgambaro and his new installation, Goosebumps (dark times), now on view at GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin, as part of the museum’s...
Welcome to the Mirrordome
RAS2025-10-28T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol. 90. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! Every winter, Trillium Park on the waterfront in Toronto is lit up with amazing sculptures at night. For a few years now, my friends Kyle Chisholm, Hillary Predko, and Daemon Baliski and I have had the opportunity to create some of these works. This year we’re super excited to have made Greenhouse Reflect, a mesmerizing mirrored sculpture that changes throughout the cycle...
October 28, 2025RASUncategorizedarchitecture, art, Art & Sculpture, backdrop, Craft & Design, geodesic, make90, photobooth0 Comments
WORM collaborative robots automate art in a new way
RAS2025-10-21T13:58:14+00:00Arduino Team — October 21st, 2025 In the world of machining, there are manual tools and then there are CNC tools. But there is also an option that exists between those two extremes, called “conversational programming.” That lets operators create complex programs by extrapolating from something simple, such as a radial pattern of a milled pocket. These WORM collaborative robots from researchers at UC Santa Barbara do something similar, but for artistic endeavors from painting...
October 21, 2025RASUncategorizedArduino, art, Collaborative Robots, Nano, robotics, robots0 Comments
A Cut Above the Rest — Exquisite Fabric Carcasses
RAS2025-10-13T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol. 90. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! Tamara Kostianovsky’s fabric-based sculptures convey all the passions and emotions of a mainstream marble masterpiece and then some, befitting her colorful specialty in the medium of the flesh, dead carcasses, and natural rejuvenation. Kostianovsky, an Argentine-American artist who has presented many solo exhibitions across the United States and Europe, continues to use her formal training from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine...
October 13, 2025RASUncategorizedart, Art & Sculpture, Craft & Design, fabric, Made On Earth, make900 Comments
Holy Bike! Keith Young’s Handmade Rat Bike
RAS2025-10-01T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol. 89. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! For some, there is nothing more beautiful than the sound of a motorcycle revving its engine in the distance. The raw power, the noise, and the sheer unadulterated coolness of a good motorcycle can seem almost heavenly to the bikers and gearheads of the world (as well as providing excellent canvases for making and customization). All of the motorcycle’s power and potential...
October 1, 2025RASUncategorizedart, Drones & Vehicles, handmade, make89, motorcycle, over the top0 Comments
No Fate: It’s What You Make Of It That Matters
RAS2025-09-05T21:52:15+00:00A maker mindset and DIY becomes ever more important in times of struggle and conflict, as we’ve reported on Ukraine here, here and here over the last few years. However, while drones and other instruments of war and survival have been front and center in those conversations, Ukrainian artists and makers have been equally busy sharing their experience of the ongoing conflict in imaginative ways, including at four Maker Faires that have been held in the...
