The first full-fledged maker faire held in Singapore. Over 10,000 visitors and 200 booths. Graced by the Education Minister and Maker Media CEO Dale Dougherty. Click on any image below to see in slideshow format.
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Assembling the Adafruit Cupcade
Spent about two days assembling the Adafruit Cupcade as a gift for a friend. Some soldering and fiddling around with the command line is required. I ordered the kit online. You have to provide the Raspberry Pi though, more specifically a Model One Revision B. I had an old one lying around that I bought …
Proposal for Singapore maker faire – the “Neobombe”
So some of my friends and I (our group has a name – “Art Makes Us“) decided to take part in the Maker Faire in Singapore this year. It will be held a primary school in Tampines sometime early July. Here is our project description: “Neobombe” is a scientific artwork based on the Turing machine …
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The making of the “yes-no” box
I was given a mysterious job at work from the very top management in my company. I was asked to make a simple communication device that merely says “yes” or “no” with a single button. A longer press means “no” while a short press means “yes”, denoted by a blinking red and green LED respectively. …
Hacking a wii sensor bar
So I needed a wii sensor bar that looks nice enough to be deployed in a commercial installation for a big client in the USA. Previously, for a similar installation in Malaysia, it was my first time doing it, so we proposed a design made up of wood that looks like this: It was big …
Hacking a Hasbro toy lightsaber
As part of work research, I was asked to hack a Hasbro toy lightsaber. It was the first time I tried hacking anything at all and I considered it a minor miracle that I succeeded. By hacking, I mean actually replacing the entire electronics, LEDs and the logic chip, and replacing them with my own …
The making of ‘Gramophone’
I made this gramophone in four weeks. It looks and feels like a gramophone but obviously doesn’t function exactly like one. It has a turntable and (fake) vinyl records, but it is actually a laptop in disguise. There is a webcam on top of the screen, and the electronics inside include a Mac Mini and …
The making of ‘The Synesthete’s Music Machine’
My ex-classmates and I have sometimes talked about doing art projects together outside of school while we were still at LASALLE. We even created our own logo and group name called “Art Makes Us” to reflect that we like to make art. A year after we graduated, even though we are all working then, we actually …
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‘Fluid Vase’ by Kwok Pan Fung
Beautiful example of how code can be realised in the physical world through 3D printing. This vase takes the form of a 3D freeze of water in motion captured in a split-second time frame. Description from Vimeo:- Fluid Vase – Action becomes Object from Kwok Pan Fung on Vimeo. Launch of Fluid Vase at http://www.supabold.com …
The Singapore Mini-Maker Faire 2013
This was the second year of the event held on the last weekend of July. While I was a visitor last year, I became a participant this year with my own maker booth entitled “Hobby Electronic Light Gadgets” where I displayed some of my DIY light gadgets. It was held at the Scape Warehouse. This …
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