It’s my new book! 144 whole pages jam-packed with your favorite art. It’s so exciting to finally be done and flip through a copy. You can order one too!
As I start building more projects in physical rather than purely digital space, it’s important to find good, cheap, environmentally friendly sources for raw materials. I really miss going to American Science and Surplus in Chicago (possibly the greatest store to ever exist) as a kid. Here are some Bay Area places to find surplus & recycled ingredients.
So I inherited a load of LEDs and some basic driver electronics from a friend. They’d been assembled Christmas-light fashion for a Burning Man project, sequenced by Atmega32 microcontrollers. Reverse-engineering their circuitry was straightforward, and an opportunity to learn about Darlington arrays — the ULN2803A chip lets you control a high-current set of lights from a low-current microcontroller.
I like the diffuse look of paper lanterns over the point-light intensity of bare LEDs so I’m playing with different shapes and materials. Most of the work now will be sculptural, and I’ll be going for a ‘luminous origami’ feel.
Check out the Crochet Coral Reef Project and their hyperbolic crochet blog. Margaret Wertheim gave a TED talk on this intersection of geometry, environmentalism and handicrafts. She says about modeling these sea slug & coral shapes, it’s “almost impossible to do it on computers.”
Althea Crome did the remarkable miniature knitting in Coraline – read an interview or watch this feature:
I love kinetic sculpture. Here’s a collection of my favorite work; Wikipedia has much more.
MAKE filmed a wonderful artist profile on Reuben Margolin, who builds these floating wooden waves with an amazing sense of lightness. Watch full screen!
Hoberman Transformable Design creates expanding domes and architectural shells and originally turned me onto transformable (or deployable) structures. Here’s an interview.
Hi, I'm Larry Sheradon. I make art with code and ink, shoot photos of tiny worlds, and make websites in San Francisco.
Write me at sheradon (at) gmail (dot) com.
So I inherited a load of LEDs and some basic driver electronics from a friend. They’d been assembled Christmas-light fashion for a Burning Man project, sequenced by Atmega32 microcontrollers. Reverse-engineering their circuitry was straightforward, and an opportunity to learn about 
