From the MAKE: Flickr pool Greg’s using Arduino to create an auto-drummer – Yesterday, I got my drum playing robot working with chop sticks screwed into rotary solenoids. It’s powered by two 9v batteries wired in series and controlled by the arduino through transistors. I showed this off at the UrHo Talks 2 event last […]
Jake von Slatt built this brass bedside lamp, which incorporates an Aerolux glow bulb, as a night light. He also used the ammonia aging technique for the brass components (which Tim Lillis covers in his “Tricks of the Trade” comic in the next MAKE). [BTW: Lyra is the little girl in The Golden Compass.] Lyra’s […]
Lisa Laughly, aka Ninth Wave Designs, has done some absolutely stunning Moleskine art projects, including the Alchemy Notebook, seen here. Lisa incorporated her own modified versions of existing rune script, and then further obscured it by using a cipher wheel and grid (also built into the book). So the text has meaning, but good luck […]
Emily of The Black Apple has generously whipped up some cute gift tags for you to download and print. Check them out on her blog here.
If you use the Command+Shift+3 or Command+Shift+4 commands to save screen captures, you know how quickly your desktop gets cluttered with mysteriously named PNG files. A post on the Sneak blog points to a solution to this problem for Leopard users: To change the default save location, open up Terminal and run the following command: […]
What will be big in 2009? Leather keyboards via Giz.
This installation by Australian artist Ivan Argote is called “Tourist Trap” and consists of a large handmade wooden cage perched on a leg over a city pathway. When “tourists” walk underneath it, it traps them, although we think it’s probably too easy to escape this beast. Ivan Argote via Aram Bartholl Blog
