ASCII Art – 1948
From Popular Mechanics 1948 – on the excellent Modern Mechanix site – Link.
Year: 2006
MAKE – BEST CRAFT BLOG! – 2006 Bloggies
MAKE won “Best Craft Blog” at the 2006 Bloggies, YAY!! Link.
Bazaar Bizarre at the Maker Faire
Bazaar Bizarre is set for the Maker Faire! The full list of vendors will sure to tickle your crafty side. There will be lots of hip items to check out from punk rock skull jewelry to cuddly stuffed monsters. We hope to see you there! Link.
PS2 NES mod…
Fantastic upright NES mod to make it look like a PS2 – [via] Link.
Step-by-step tensegrity tower part 1 & 2
Peter writes – “Tensegrities are a type of structural system where all of the compression members (poles/columns) are supported and connected to each other with tensions members (ropes). This means that the poles look as if they are floating in a mass of cables. As promised, I am going to explain step-by-step how to build […]
Homebrew CPU
Bill’s homebrew CPU – “Magic-1 is a homebuilt minicomputer. It doesn’t use an off-the-shelf microprocessor, but rather has a custom CPU made out of 74 Series TTL chips. Altogether there are more than 200 chips in Magic-1 connected together with thousands of individually wrapped wires. And, it works. Not only the hardware, but there’s also […]
Circuit Bending is Easy
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Coloradocrim writes – “Trying my hand at some circuit bending today. Here’s what I came up with. Check out the post [here] for some sounds. Not too exciting, but there’s not much of a circuit in this thing.” – Link. Related: Circuit Bending by Sabastian Boaz, Cristiana Yambo. Modify a […]