Month: July 2006

Hard Drive Wind Chimes

Hard Drive Wind Chimes

I used to disassemble hard drives, whenever possible, both to extract the magnets and to see how the different types worked. Different hard drives contain all kinds of wonderful components: voice coil motors, stepper motors, exotic bearings, electropolished machined parts, chemically etched metal webs, flexible circuitry, and my personal favorite: optical quadrature encoders for pivot […]

More Tape Making

More Tape Making

The Tape Making Madness Continues… I needed a carrying wrap to keep tools from bouncing around in my scooter. All I wanted was a sheet with pockets/loops to hold tools. I started with only three, but there is space for more. –Link In need of a larger bag for my camera equips, i embarked on […]

Kids making softies

Kids making softies

Lizette Greco makes crafty goods based on the drawings of her children. Now it looks like the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree as her kids have started to make their own cuddly creatures themselves. Posted up on the CRAFT flickr pool are these photos. Pictured left is her son’s pterodactyl and at right […]

Web based sun dial

A digital sun dial – “The sun.dial is an internet-based installation project that fosters a sense of shared global space and time. The principle system consists of twelve LCD displays suspended from an overhead apparatus in an outward-facing ring. This circular display is the hub of a world-wide input system. Each screen displays the information […]