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Zolterno: An Animatronic, Fire Based Fortune Teller
Nearly everyone who has lived for any period of time understands the pop culture references from the Tom Hanks classic: Big. In order to avoid bullying, a young child finds a mystical fortune teller...
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I'm Just a Bill Costume
Here's the thing about this costume. I came up with it and started ordering the parts back in September. The plan was (is) to wear it to the National Zoo's Night of the Living Zoo event. However, it's...
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The Sleepwalker: A Mobile Sleeping Bag Experience
Have you ever been so comfortably warm in your sleeping bag you didn't want to get out, but it was time to start cooking breakfast and move forward with your day? Has it ever been so chilly while...
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Make your own cellphone from scratch.
The DIY Cellphone is a working (albeit basic) cellphone that you can make yourself. It can make and receive phone calls and text messages, store names and phone numbers, display the time, and serve as...
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3d printed pinhole camera
I'm a big photography aficionado and always wanted to make my own analog camera. Thanks to 3D printing, it is now possible to make a fully funcional pinhole camera. Just print the camera and start...
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GoPro Gravity Slider
The GoPro Gravity Slider is a custom mount for a GoPro that allows it to shoot footage of an object as it is falling. If you drop the object and the GoPro at the same time, you'll see the whole fall...
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Blinking LEDs + Controllable Servo
This project consists of two circuits (the blinking LED circuit and the servo motor circuit) connected to the same power source. I intended the circuits to be used as the beginnings of creating a toy...
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Posture Sensor
This is an Instructables to help you create your very own posture sensor. The idea here is that by clipping an accelerometer to the back of your collar you can get a somewhat accurate reading of...
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S.A.M. Spring Aided Machining (CNC with adhesive remover)
S.A.M. Spring Aided Machining (CNC with solvent) is a school project designed by three architecture students at CCA, San Francisco: Matt Boeddiker, Abelino Robles, and Tim Henshaw-Plath. (www.cca.edu)...
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Stress Makes Art: Galvanic Skin Response and Visual Generation
I'm a graphic design student and built this project for a beginning electronics class. I'm interested in connecting the signals generated by one's body to the act of visual generation. This piece takes...
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Webster: A Geometric Pattern Weaving Machine
We are three students from California College of the Arts in San Francisco in the Architecture program. This studio is called Creative Architecture Machines and is taught by Jason Johnson and Michael...
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Stratum Networks Delta Robot
Stratum Networks is a computer aided kinematically driven robot that can be used for rapid prototyping and fabrication. Its most basic logic and methodology are applicable to scale at an architectural...
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Photocell Piano
This tutorial is a how to construct a 6 note “Photocell Piano”. When the user runs their hand over the top of the keys (photoresistors) they turn on audio notes, which can be tuned with potentiometers....
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How to add Button features to Peter Knight's Auduino project
It's fun! Don't give up! I won't.By: kpm44Continue Reading »
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Build a circuit that can change the color of an LED with the sound being put...
How to build a circuit that can change the color of an LED with the sound being put out of an MP3 player. We will use a color organ and an amplifier. By: Adam LukasikContinue Reading »
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Fluid In.Flux_3D Wax Printing In Water
Fluid In.Flux is a 3D printing experimental machine which prints wax in water. The Machine was a semester-wide exploration as part of the Advanced Architecture Studio called "Creative Architecture...
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Proto_Taut: A Foam Stretching Machine
Proto[taut] is a form finding machine evolved around material elongation. It works with natural qualities of viscous and pliant materials such as phase change, tension, expansion and gravity. The...
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Geoweaver: A Walking 3D Printer Hexapod
Geoweaver is a student designed (team members Jia Wu, Mary Sek, and Jeff Maeshiro) robot created in the Creative Architecture Machines advanced options studio at the California College of the Arts...
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Build a Bicycle Frame
There are a growing number of materials and methods used to build bicycle frames. This instructable is specifically about building steel bicycles frames. MIG, TIG, Lugged and Fillet Brazing are all...
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3D Printing MRI Compatible Tools for Apraxia Study
My housemate, Zarinah, who happens to be a neuroscientist, consulted me about how to make tools that no one would know the use of. My first thought was to hack together different things to create...
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Parabolic String Lamp
This Parabolic String lamp is made out of laser cut wood, yarn, and a pendant light kit. I was thumbing through some vintage interior design magazines and found all these kind of cool examples of...
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Dindio
Dindio is an open-source toy with infinite ways to play. You can try the three example games here, modify them, or come up with your own Dindio games from scratch! example game 1: Two or more players...
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P9L - Lounge Chair made with CNC Router
CNC Furniture has been for a few years already but hasn't really taken off. I believe this is because designers haven't spend enough time designing with that technology in mind. Most of the CNC...
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Make a CNC mill with a laser cutter
So, you have a CNC laser cutter but you want a CNC mill? Problem solved. This project is a small CNC mill that can be assembled from store-bought and laser-cut parts for about $800 without machine...
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The Manhattan Project: A mechanical cocktail mixer
The seed for this project was the desire to mechanically measure specific amounts of liquid in a way that was both adjustable and easy to clean. In the past, I have used measured pour spouts on...
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Superhero Arm
I met nine-year-old Aidan Robinson at a summer camp he attended called Superhero Cyborgs. This camp, run by KIDmob, is a place where kids with a variety of limb differences design their own prosthetic...
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Space Weaver: A Seven Foot Tall 3D Weaving Machine
Space Weaver is a student-designed 3D weaving machine created by Prerna Auplish, Evan Bowman, and Ryan Chen at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. The machine was created in the...
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Sky Printer - Prototyping An Adaptable Large-Scale 3d-Printer
The Sky Printer is an adaptable, cable-based delta-gantry system that can span large areas with a minimal footprint. The Sky Printer is designed for large- scale applications in potentially remote...
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Terra Spider: Autonomous Remediation Robot
This project was designed and built by students in the Architecture program at the California College of the Arts; Manali Chitre (MAAD), Anh Vu (BArch), and Mallory Van Ness (MArch). The studio course...
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The "Tinfoil Asteroid" Motor Enclosure
This Instructable will give you an inside look at a central feature of an elaborate ongoing vehicle transformation entitled "Love, Inertia, and the Pursuit of the Perfect Stance." During my time as an...
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