Nail pulling tips
Charles sent in some tips on pulling out nails, the sponge trick is nice – Link. The rest of the site has a lot of good home building tips/info if you’re in to that sort of thing.
Month: June 2006
DIY Fiber optic star ceiling
Danny sent in his DIY Fiber optic star ceiling and started to document how it was made – “If you are thinking about installing a fiber optic sky ceiling you really need to plan for it, otherwise, you will have a difficult time making it look good. During construction I placed 4” conduit from where […]
HTML to MIDI – What does a site sound like?
This site takes a web pages and turns it into a MIDI you can listen to – [via] Link. Here’s what MAKE sounds like – Link (MID). I then imported the MIDI file to GarageBand – not a bad way to make music for soundtracks, games or whatever else. Here’s the MP3 – Link (MP3).
Workshops workshops!
Here are some more workshop photos from the MAKE Flickr photo pool, where is yours? Oh right, you’re going to post it up soon and win something -nifty- from MAKE! – Link.
Remaking Thift Store Art
On display at the Wurst gallery is a series of thift store art recreated by 15 artists who were asked to find a framed piece of artwork at their local thrift store and remake it into their own creative masterpiece. Featured here at the top is Driscoll Reid’s work based on the idea of evolution […]
8 Robosapiens and Roboraptors
There’s an eBay auction for 8 bots (Robosapiens and Roboraptors) the bidding is still at $200, not a bad deal and there are lots of hacks/projects with these little guys – Link. Related: Robosapien Dance Machine… – Link. Hack a Robosapien + kit – Link. Flame-thrower Robosapien – Link. Robosapien, Roboraptor to get new brains… […]
Zasterisk – Play Zork over the phone!
Wow! Here’s voice recognition and speech synthesis for playing Infocom games (like Zork) over the phone, this might be the coolest VoIP project ever – [via] – Link.