Mark Applebaum is a musician (and professor at Stanford) who makes incredibly complex sound sculptures from found objects. (Via DeepFun) The instruments consist of threaded rods, nails, wire strings stretched through a series of pulleys and turnbuckles, plastic combs, bronze braising rod blow-torched and twisted, doorstops, shoehorns, ratchets, steel wheels, springs, lead and PVC pipe, […]
We’ve written about Lockwasher’s rayguns before – he has some great junk robots, too!
Bill Beaty documents his recipe for levitating neodymium magnets using two rotating coppers tubes. Note: The aptly named “Fantastically Dangerous Mechanical MagLev” could indeed seriously injure a person (you’ll notice Bill uses a clear plastic covering over the tubes to prevent the aforementioned nastiness) – While working on science museum exhibits in 1990 I came […]
From the CRAFT Flickr pool: user ofenjen made this freezer paper stenciled tee with a design from one of my favorite Monty Python sketches – the Ministry of Silly Walks. More: Freezer Paper Stencil Dots Freezer Paper Stencil Tutorial Freezer Paper Stencil Onesies More Freezer Paper Shirts
MAKE Editor and Publisher Dale Dougherty writes from the California State Fair: Here is one of my favorite sights, a “green” truck in the Farm area. It’s an old truck covered in grass with vegetables and flowers growing in the flat bed. Talk about a raised bed! Think how the yards of rural America could […]
Here’s helpful instructable for fitting(and building) a CCD video camera to a basic pair of binoculars – Have you ever looked through your binoculars and thought ” I wish I could get this on tape” ? Well now you can. In this Instructable I’ll show you how to build a cheap CCD eyepiece that will […]
Brooklyn musician Moldover shows his approach to converting a standard MIDI controller into something more suited to the fast-paced live loop manipulation – aka ‘controllerism‘. For a more in depth info on his hardware and software techniques be sure to check out Moldover’s Approach to Controllerism part 1 & part 2 [via Matrixsynth]
