Matt Richardson’s genius hasn’t ever really been in question. The Make Live host and compulsive hacker has built an excellent library of creations, starting from a Google Reader pedal to an email-triggered Christmas tree . The man’s works are definitely art, of their own way, but his new project, Fade Away 1, is the primary that lets easily see taking on residence in a SoHo gallery. On the heart of the installation is an Arduino (for sure) that draws in posts from Twitter with the phrase “fade away” in them. An identical AVR chip then “prints” those tweets on phosphorescent paper with a UV laser mounted on a servo — because the energy dissipates, the messages slowly disappear. And, if you are wondering whon the “1″ at the end of the title means, Richardson plans to continuously improve the project. For some more information about the subsequent iteration and to peer the present one in action, try out the videos after the break.
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