The latest “Gadget Freak” from design news shows you how to make a remove telephone ringing indicator – You leave your cubicle to get a cup of coffee. You get a few feet and hear a phone ring. Is it yours? You dash back and nope, not yours. You head back for the coffee and […]
Poul-Henning Kamp wants to track his natural gas usage. He knows that his meter has an impulse output port, but it is hidden inside the sealed meter. I know this wouldn’t stop a lot of our readers from figuring out how to use it, but he has a very clever, non-obtrusive solution, to the problem. […]
I want to say this could be a cool remake, sorta – but I’m not sure how well this would be received – The Tempest Prognosticator, also known as the Leech Barometer, is a 19th century invention by George Merryweather in which leeches are used in a barometer. The twelve leeches are kept in small […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Mleak writes – These are my testers for a project I’m working on using processed lunch meats etched with a laser cutter. Ultimately, I would like to show the entire process from animal to ambiguous pink slice of meat over the course of a package of lunch meat, beginning here […]
Molly Meng of 8mm ideas is having an opening for her art show at Candystore (3153 16th Street) in San Francisco Thursday, Feb 7 from 6:30-8:30pm. Link.
Rock stars Theo Watson and Zach Lieberman will be running a Tinker.it workshop on their platform openFrameworks: This is the first ever UK workshop on openFrameworks, a cross-platform C++ library for creative coding, and an opportunity to experiment with building new systems for interaction that move away from the screen and into physical space. This […]
How to make LED light pens for long-exposure light drawings. LED Light Drawing Pens: Tools for drawing light doodles – [via] Link Related: Animated light pen art – Link HOW TO – Animated light pen art – Link
