This project puts famous “Internet” audio samples such as “RickRoll”, “Peanut Butter Jelly Time”, and “Will it Blend” on a 12 inch vinyl record that can be easily scratched by any DJ. Now if only it could double as a “scratch” disk. Internet Meme Scratch Attack
The “Robot Partner” by artist John Nussey is an autonomous robot that attempts to connect humans and machines in a creative approach to automated systems through a “living” table that can move small objects around on its surface. Check out the video and look closely to see the moving object. Robot Partner on Vimeo
“iResistors” is a handy iPhone application for any maker with an iPhone. The free app lets you drag your finger across the color bars to pick the right color combination of the resistor in question. Pretty handy if you are not near the Internet and you need to check your values. iResistors
Berto Aussems wrote in from the Netherlends to tell us about his hack which replaces the microphones in the Zoom H2 recorder with 4 line inputs, perfect for 4 channel field recording. The Zoom H2 has gotten a lot of glowing reviews in its standard form, but converting it for line input gives you the […]
Dale (our publisher) writes – I came upon this exhibit of old tractors and tools at the Mendocino County Fair, which ran this weekend in Boonville, California. I saw this unusual sign for the exhibit: I wondered what the heck it meant and learned that it was a phrase in the local Boontling dialect created […]
Nice article @ Forbes with a lot of familiar projects and faces from the world of MAKE/CRAFT and the DIY space! A blinking fashion statement… For all their talk of breaking glass ceilings, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have nothing on Leah Buechley. In the several years since she first sewed a circuit board to […]
In each volume of MAKE we have “major projects” these project pages are meaty step-by-step articles with start-to-finish photos, precise instructions and how-to learning that can range from making a VCR cat feeder to ariel kite photography. In MAKE volume 12 the projects are: Super Tritone Shop Whistle by William Gurstelle. This jazzy, compressed-air-powered whistle […]
