“Flora and Harmony” is an interactive sculpture by Niklas Roy and Wojtek Kucharczyk showing at the Transmediale 2008 festival currently happening in Berlin, Germany. The piece is built from cables, stage equipment, fans, hair dryers, and is interactive through two control desks with switchable multi-plugs that visitors can use to switch on an off the […]
MAKE will be @ the Greener Gadgets conference today – Link. We’ll post up some photos and more throughout the day. Take a look a the schedule, great line up!
Interesting write up from Mark Valentine on his “steam battery” he writes – A few months ago, Forrest M. Mims III, the editor of The Citizen Scientist, received an inquiry from an upper-level physics student that led to a brief (or perhaps not so brief) account of how I discovered the “Steam Battery.” Essentially, this […]
What do you get when you combine a scarf and a snake? Sewn by Blythe put them together and came up with snarves. Link.
From the MAKE Flickr pool: Member Simple Simon shares more of his vehicular adventures: How to get a cast oven stove upstairs. (Driving the truck up to line up with the stove was a challenge due to the ski tips) I don’t remember what pulled the ladder up but probably the fan belt since the […]
We’re pleased to announce that Honda is sponsoring a section of our site called “The Power of Dreams” – in this section you’ll see green-related projects and innovative projects/ideas and folks who are making a difference. You can view the section (with posts from the MAKE site) here – Link.
It seems Rock Band’s plastic strum bar wasn’t good enough for this player. He used some professional quality wood fittings to mount an actual guitar string which triggers a spring-switch mechanism. Notice the lovely wood inlay inhabiting the former home of the strum bar. Looks quite “high end”! Related: Fixing a Rock Band strat – […]
