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The Radiophonic Workshop
In 1958 the BBC established the Radiophonic Workshop to explore and produce innovative sounds for radio programming. The group's unconventional approach to sound synthesis and arrangement poised them at the forefront of music technology - making them the envy...
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Portable wireless backpack takes pictues and keeps you stylish
The PORTA2030 from 2006 is a mobile data sensing storage transmission unit that consists of a wireless hard drive (the WL-HDD2.5), a 1 GB flashcard and an open source backend. The device functions as a portable data sensing storage...
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Sequencer made of pipes seems more authentic
This Sequential Resonation Machine by Joseph Casbarian routs any amplified sound source through a twelve position switch positioned at the top of the device. Each of the 12 valves contain a speaker, turning this steampunk looking device into a...
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Maker Faire video
Curious inventor sent in their video from Maker Faire - It includes the destruction of Pleo (cute robot dinosaur) in the battle bot arena, powered recliners wheeling around (and cupcakes), cement and candy 3d printers, a dirt cheap multi-touch...
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//Mukana - mobile system for visually impaired
/MUKANA (the Finnish for aboard, along, in, on, part, with and within) is a piece of cutting-edge smart clothing for the visually impaired. It connects technology with textiles and thus promotes new approaches to dressing up. Users were given...
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David Bowen: Growth Rendering Device
This is an amazing robot created by David Bowen. Here is how he explains his Growth Rendering Device: This system provides light and food in the form of hydroponic solution for the plant. The plant reacts to the device...
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Guy Marsden: Electronic Artwork
Guy worked on these pieces from 1986 - 2006. Over the course of 20 years he has moved from finding his parts at local shops, to scouring the Internet for interesting pieces. These are some of the most amazing...
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Maker Faire photos
atomicthumbs' Maker Faire '08 photo set - over 170 photos and videos....
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DIY: Satellite Tracker
This project is for those of you that want to explore communications via LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites. You can manually point your antenna, but a micro-controller makes it a whole lot easier. The basis for operation is fairly...
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Maker Faire video...
The videos keep rolling in, here's one from Carlos - nicely done!...
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OS X overlapping gif screensaver hack
Bennett Williamson at FATLAB writes: The default Mac OS X (I'm on version 10.4.11) screensaver picture slideshow function can read an alpha channel in a .gif file. That is to say, as the slideshow plays your images, a .gif...
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USB Boarduino
Love your Boarduino but hate that FTDI cable? Ladyada to the rescue again, with a new kit: a USB Boarduino kit, with the FTDI chip (surface mount) and USB port pre-soldered and tested for kit-assembling ease! Related: Boarduino -...
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Slime-o-tron maker interview
Eric of LEMUR talks trons, slime, and sound - Eric Singer has more than just a penchant for making his musical bots. In fact, he has a separate category altogether for very innovative musical controllers he creates and calls...
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Thomas Doyle's miniature art
Artist Thomas Doyle makes fascinating art, tells compelling stories, with model train miniatures and scenery. I've always been strangely attracted to these miniature components and wondered why more people don't make art, jewelry, dioramas, etc. with them. Art by...
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Brainwaves in a browser
The Gnaural Java applet allows you to playback binaural beat sequences in a web browser - arrange your own programs using the Gnaural software or simply download example programs and load them via the java interface. If you're looking...
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Chief Cook Robot learns by doing
It's always nice to see 'darn cute' & 'genuinely interesting' join forces - especially when it demonstrates autonomous extraction of task constraints (to the Benny Hill theme) - The Chief Cook Robot learning to cook an omelet by whipping...
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Microfiche musical interface
Andrew Turley turned a microfiche viewer into a musical/MIDI interface simply by pointing a photodiode at the screen and feeding the light values into an MCU and out to a Casio keyboard. As you scroll through the microfiche content,...
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SWARM @ Maker Faire
Hack-a-day posted up one of my favorite projects @ Maker Faire, SWARM!...
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