Light Play Frame: A pvc frame for Light Play. This is a frame that Sabrina and I made for the Light Play activity, made of pvc pipe. We've used it in a staff workshop, and it's a good size for gallery activities, too.

This painting machine responds to light levels -- creating red splatters when the light is brighter, and yellow when the light is not so bright. The mechanism is designed to "whap" the screen to knock the paint onto the paper. If it is bright, the motor will hit one side of the screen, and when the light dims (the sun goes behind a cloud) it will reverse direction, go a bit further, then continue "whapping" the screen on the other side.

I made this diorama as a gift for a friend, using the guts of a battery-operated toy (one of the ones with lots of sounds and lights). When you look in the box and push the button on the side, LEDs flash on and off and illuminate a scene of UFOs and planets. The idea bubbled out of lots of toy taking-apart, and a Michel Gondry movie called Three Dead People. I could pretty much use the toy as it was, but with a few adjustments.