Mark your calendars, for the next gathering of the empire makers – Make:NYC Meeting 8 – Thursday August 21st, 6:30PM Ah, the summer. Everyone’s a little lazy I guess eh? Get your head back in the game! Come join us for Make:NYC Meeting 8! Challenge: Wind Power Teams will battle head-to-head and be honored to […]
Knitgrrl Shannon Okey posts about her new Kindle and her crafty ideas brewing for the portable reading device. I recently got one after a crafty friend showed me hers at Maker Faire. I have to say I love the portability and the ease of reading. So how many of you have Kindles out there? Feel […]
You may recall a post last month about Kaizo Mario, the ridiculously cruel fan-made Super Mario World level. Hackszine reader Guy Russell sent us a link to an article on the Mechanically Seperated Meat blog that uses this level to visually illustrate the concept of the “Many Worlds Interpretation” of quantum physics. One good example […]
The “Cantaro” is a digital flower vase that creates music according to the current state of the plant contained within it. If the plant is watered the system plays watery sounds and if there is a lot of sunlight, the sound is “happy and bright”. We just wonder what happens when the plant is wilting, […]
”Subtext” is an interesting art installation that attempts to visualize Internet traffic and the protocols it utilizes through sequenced lighting effects. From the description: “Subtext” (2008) is a generative excavation into these discourses, capturing the semantic content of a network messages and transforming them into glyphs of light which, in sequence, form sentences corresponding to […]
Do you have a lot of old gaming system joysticks laying around your house? This project helps turn your old joysticks into nice sound devices with no external sound source needed. Check out the instructions at the link below. Noistick- create a noise making device from a joystick with autofire
Sean Ragan followed a 19th century design by Petrus Jacobus Kipp to create this benchtop gas generator. He writes: If you should find yourself in need of small volumes of gas at about atmospheric pressure for a reaction or project, generating it on the bench can be a convenient and inexpensive alternative to buying or […]
