Here’s an entire orchestra made up of discarded automobile gas tanks – “Gas Tank Orchestra is a trash-picking do-it-yourself reprocessing project featuring electro-acoustic instruments built from junked automobile gas tanks salvaged from New Orleans’ side streets. The tanks have been fitted with strings, pipes, hoses, mouthpieces, etc. and born again as bass, harp, zither, brass, […]
Crabfu SteamWorks writes – “A simple hack of the Tamiya turtle kit, to be powered by steam. Including a video of the race between steam turtle and steam walker(hare) -see who wins!” – Link.
We’re catching up with the “Cool stuff being made” videos, here is the first one – “Years ago, with the advances in electronic communications and commerce, the futurists all predicted that we would soon be in a “paper-less” society. Yet here we are in 2006, using a s much paper as ever. Way back when, […]
The second video from Pat – “For the outdoor tennis players out there, the season here in the Mid-Atlantic is in full swing (get it…?), so our thoughts turn to whacking the fuzzy ball. This is another video from our friends at South Carolina Educational TV. It’s a 7-1/2-minute tour of a Wilson tennis ball […]
Macfreak writes – “My Mighty Mouse stopped scrolling down, only upwards. The cleaning method as mentioned on the ‘Apple website’ didn’t solve the problem, so as a last resort: operation Mouse!” – Link.
While this might not be that useful for most folks, it’s always good to hear about someone fixing something as opposed to just tossing it… John sent in his how to on fixing a burned-up Durabrand PVS-1960 portable DVD player – Link.
Tony has a great Xbox controller controller project! – “What is this? It’s a system that will allow basically anything that can talk udp to control an Xbox. Why would you want to do this? I have no idea. I have my reasons, maybe you have some too. How this works: The XBOX buttons are […]
