Hacking the ThingamaKIT
Hack-a-Day has a how-to piece on modifying/improving/circuit bending the ThingamaKIT from Bleep Labs. How-To: Hack a ThingamaKIT More: Retro ThingamaHat ThingamaHat ThingamaKIT ThingamaKIT build photos
Month: August 2008
Handmade jaw harp collection
Clayton Bailey expands on the classic boinging-twang of the jaw harp with myriad handmade brass variations. Take for instance, the Gunharp – What do you get when you graft a jaw harp to a deer rifle? You get a very accurate jaw harp called a Gun Harp. You can brace it against your shoulder, point […]
Knockout Knickers Workshop in London
Mary Beth writes in about this workshop at the Make Lounge on making fancy panties! From the site: Tired of boring high street knickers? Sew your own instead! In this workshop, you’ll make a pair of thongs, briefs or boy shorts (your choice), plus take home patterns and instructions to stitch the others! You’ll learn […]
HOW TO – Lazy Days Skirt
Oliver + S shares a free pattern download for making this easy, breezy summer skirt for a little girl.
Shake a leg … a maraca leg.
A maraca with built-in piezo mic played through delay-looper & pitch-shifter effects can make for some good sounds … but upgrade that shaker with mannequin-limb enclosure and you’re in for some stylistically enhanced neo-surrealist good sounds. [via GetLoFi]
Photographically enhanced video
Researchers from the University of Washington’s Graphics and Imaging Laboratory are developing video enhancement software which utilizes data from related still images. Currently only for use with ‘still-life’ scenes, the process incorporates information from higher resolution photos and automatically maps it to the corresponding areas of the video in need of improvement – increasing resolution, […]
Fruit Juice Gummies
Here’s a neat recipe for making your own gummies from fruit juice and gelatin. I’m sure vegetarians could fanagle the same thing with agar agar. (Thanks, Patti!)