PERMISSION TO PLAY
MAGNIFICENT MOUSETRAP, MAGNIFIED
AS SEEN AT
THERE’S SOMETHING
INHERENTLY DELIGHTFUL
about a familiar object made
gigantic. Mark Perez’ Life
Size Mousetrap taps into this
whimsy-by-magnification as
it transforms the children’s
board game Mouse Trap into a
Technicolor variety show. It’s a
30-foot-high, 16-piece, 50,000-
pound, Rube Goldberg-style
interactive kinetic sculpture set
on a 6,500-square-foot game
board, with an entourage of
clown engineers and can-can
dancer mice. An iconic crowd-pleaser at Maker Faire, the
spectacle culminates in dropping a 2-ton bank safe from a
crane. lifesizemousetrap.org
—Laura Cochrane
—Nick Raymond
PING! Augmented Pixels
Your hands are the controllers in this retro-style, Pong-like video game developed by
Niklas Roy. PING employs a video camera
to capture the movement of your hands,
and feeds the information to an ATmega8
microcontroller that evaluates the brightness
around the virtual ball and incorporates your
hands into the game. Make your own with
the code and schematics provided.
niklasroy.com/project/101
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