CNET posted a piece outlining what HOPE is all about and conducted a brief interview with the conference founder and 2600 publisher Emmanuel Goldstein – “Basically what the hackers and phone phreakers of the past were doing, everybody is doing today,” he said in an interview on Thursday. “This is the price of success; we […]
This “obnoxious noise maker” called the “Ubnox-O-Phone” by its maker is a combination of a sound generator and Ruby Guitar Amp who’s schematic can be downloaded from their site. The whole project only cost $35 so it’s a pretty cheap way to annoy people. Check out the video at the link below. The Ubnox-O-Phone!!!
The “Rechnender Raum / Calculating Space” is a light-weight kinetic sculpture by Ralf Baecker that is constructed from sticks, strings, and fishing weights. The sculpture also functions a fully functional neural network. Really impressive piece and the video at the link below is pretty amazing to see it in action. Also, the piece will be […]
Here’s a nice how-to on pitch bending a standard cassette walkman. This hack uses a photocell as a tripper pot on the device. Check out the link for instructions on how to put this together. Primer: Pitch-Bending a Walkman
Check out Daniel Andrade’s binary LED clock built using the Arduino. It’s well thought out, including controls for setting the time and hibernating with the LEDs off. Each hour and minute digit is represented in binary form, so it’s actually fairly easy to read once you get accustomed to it. The circuit and source are […]
I love the swirly, organic feel of this knitted skirt Mintyfresh worked up during a recent 30-hour flight (!) to Singapore. More details and pix at her blog.
Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of MAKE and CRAFT, is on the road this week and writes: On a visit today to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, I got a quick tour of the collections, a place where objects not in active use are stored. One thing caught my attention: a wooden […]
