NYC makers! Mark your calendars! The BENT Festival is coming, the festival of broken toys descends on your unsuspecting city – April 26-28 NYC. Check out the other dates for LA and Minneapolis too. The Tank is pleased to announce BENT 2007: The Fourth Annual Circuit Bending Festival. The term circuit bending refers to the […]
Phil @ Make writes: Erica has a special treat for Perl folks with Apple TVs! On Sunday, with a hundred better things to do but no incentive to do them, I put together an Apple TV plug-in that allows you to run any Perl script you place into a folder in your home directory. (/Users/frontrow/perlbin). […]
MedCosm writes – I thought it would be a neat to build a toy that records and plays back beats like a simple drum machine. For those who are musically inclined, it provides endless hours of entertainment and even has practical purposes in learning and practicing music. Even better if it used less than $5 […]
Chris writes – I’ve been a regular visitor to the Kinetica Museum in London since it’s opening. One of the things I always really liked were the automata donation boxes. For this reason I attended the Cabaret Mechnical Theatre workshop that gave an insight into the processes using cardboard prototyping (some photos). Last night was […]
Some new (tiny stuff) from Spark Fun! GR-10 a super-tiny GPS receiver from ETek and Micro Modular Technologies – Link. DC to DC step up PCB for converting any old battery source (1.1V to 4.5V) to a 5V [I’m not sure why says patent pending on the back] – Link. More @ Spark Fun Electronics […]
Propeller driven bicycle, Popular Science 1936 and surely coming soon to a Critical Mass ride – Link. Related: Bicycle projects @ MAKE – Link. Bicycle archives @ MAKE – Link. From the pages of MAKE: The Rocketman’s Garage, rocket powered bicycles! Meet Minnesota’s celebrated thrill-machine maker. MAKE 05 – Page 154. Subscribers–read this article now […]
Great DIY bicycle / hackery blog! Link.
