Mary Ellen points us to a lovely article in the New York Times about food sculpture, which has become so popular in the last few years that the Salon of Culinary Art has made a special category just for “produce art.” Check out the incredible slideshow including this scene of rats carved from taro root […]
Scaling up from the usual MIDI-to-solenoid designs – the Tonefloat milk/music delivery team plays the bottles while mobile. Originally commissioned by Walk the Plank for the inaugural and very first Manchester Art Car Parade, the ‘People’s Prize’ winner >> tonefloat
MAKE will be at HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth, July 18-20). We will be doing talks, having a mini-Maker Faire and I think this going to be one of the biggest tech-hardware-hacking conferences of the decade – here’s an announcment about the RFID they’ll be using during the event! This summer, hackers from around the […]
In his neverending quest to life off the grid, Mikey Sklar made a LED grow lamp from some LEDs, a power supply, and an old broiler pan, which functions as a heat sink. Mikey writes: A 33 watt grow light made from 19 blue and red LEDs. Each LED is glued onto a broiler pan […]
I’ve always been a fan of crochet designer Robyn Chachula who runs the blog, Crochet by Faye. Robyn’s started a new series, “Day in the Life”, starting with herself as she shares how she lives and works in her day in the life of a structural crochet engineer. If you’re a crafter who’s interested in […]
All toy instruments should have MIDI jacks – The idea was to take a child’s toy xylophone and get the computer to play it. Now I know that the computer is capable of making noises electronically but it is much more interesting to watch an instrument being automatically played. I am sure you have all […]
Instructables user dpearce1 made a solar-powered motorized trike, and an instruction set to go along with it. From the instructable: The purpose of this project is to build a vehicle that: -Provides free, ‘green’ transportation for short distances (<10 miles), thus it must never plug into a wall socket, or emit any pollutants. -Charge while […]
