quality=”high” width=”320″ height=”256″ name=”movie” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”> While in San Francisco, I was invited to videotape a walkthrough of the Survival Reasearch Labs. SRL has been making industrial sized remote control machines and performing with them around the world since 1978. Violet Blue was my host and she showed me the workshop, machines and materials that […]
Alex writes “Neo^3 is a 1’x1’x1′ clear acrylic cube jammed with 50W of colored LED lighting. I decided the kitchen in my new apartment was kinda drab, so I built this in an afternoon to light it up a bit. My inner dork screamed, “You can’t stop there!”, and so I went on to build […]
Andrea Tung of Making Things makes some interesting observations on the subject of knitting and how it’s popularity is expanding into other forms of expression. Here are two knit houses as art projects over the last few years. What does the concept of a knit house tell us? Do we need shelter and warmth? From […]
Tanais writes “This is a follow up to an article I did shoehorning an ordinary Lucent Card into an iBook’s Airport slot — that was published in the Make: blog here This time I decided to use the same Lucent card but with a pair of DIY “coil” antennae to boost the signal of the […]
Aram writes “TV-Filter allows you to downsample an ongoing TV signal to 6 by 8 pixels in real-time. A translucent projection screen is mounted on a 5 cm deep cardboard grid. The color and intensity of each pixel is determined by the corresponding part of the TV screen on the backside. The different color information […]
Fibra has -another- neat project, this one is for building a DIY rainstick – “Rainstick originally comes form South American indians. They used to fill sun dried hollow cactus with small rocks, and stick its pins around cactus all the way down in form of a spiral. For homebuilt DIY rainstick you can use any […]
Phinch writes “So you’d like to have a nice blended margarita out in the middle of nowhere? So did I. All you need is gas trimmer and a blender to make blended drinks in remote areas. Of course, I’m still working on how to make ice without electricity.” – Link.
