Month: October 2008

Make it or break it

Make it or break it

Make it or break it, “They retool everyday items to build a better gadget” by Meredith Goldstein @ The Boston Globe… A profile of the Willoughby & Baltic hacker spaces (and a nice MAKE mention in there!)… SOMERVILLE – In the apartment space above the Subway sandwich shop on Elm Street, 15 hackers sat around […]

Painting a male White Crappie

Painting a male White Crappie

Liane sent in this fantastic site by Joshua Knuth, sculptor and taxidermist here’s a recent post about paint a specific type of fish… The animated gif shows the process. When you’re done checking it out, tour the portfolio – it’s amazing. This is my method of reproducing the colors and pattern of this species . […]

BUG on Arduino action

BUG on Arduino action

Brian writes- Using the VonHippel module and a simple c program compiled for the ARM, BUG can talk to the Arduino (in the picture, the USB cable and USB to serial chip on the breadboard are probably superfluous as the VonHippel has serial on it). Interesting and inevitable, an open source hardware project (Arduino) talking […]

NoiseBridge: new SF hacker space

NoiseBridge: new SF hacker space

There’s a new Bay Area hacker space, NoiseBridge, in the Mission District: We want to provide infrastructure and collaboration opportunities for people interested in programming, hardware hacking, physics, chemistry, mathematics, photography, security, robotics, all kinds of art, and, of course, technology. Through talks, workshops, and projects we encourage knowledge exchange, learning, and mentoring. As a […]

Chainsaw Rocker

Christopher Chiappa worked with a chainsaw artist to create this 1:1 reproduction of a Honda Accord seat with brass-plated rockers. It’s totally amazing, and called the Chainsaw Rocker. More images and more of his work over at Cool Hunting. It’s on display at Moss Los Angeles.