Month: April 2008

The Guitar Zeros @ Maker Faire

The Guitar Zeros @ Maker Faire

Starting a band and writing an album’s worth of songs with your own MIDI control scheme is cool. Using video game controllers as your interface is very cool. Doing all that with a fresh style that people can actually get into – that’s pretty much unheard of! The San Francisco Guardian describes them – Like […]

More cubicle packing

More cubicle packing

Make: Blog reader Ed Hunsinger saw the packing peanuts cubicle prank on Hack N Mod (where we found it) and executed the prank. A quick trip to the UPS store to purchase 28 cu ft of biodegradable packing peanuts (cost: $65), office supply store for paper and tape ($12), and a few beers later we […]

Bronze Boba Fett Pez dispenser

Bronze Boba Fett Pez dispenser

From Flickr: I made this using the lost wax casting process with an organic burnout. The material is silicon bronze. The original sleeve for the Pez broke, so I cannibalized parts from another dispenser: Simba from the Lion King. The hole in the body resulted from an incomplete casting of the thin part; probably could […]