Year: 2008

Homemade Leslie speaker

Homemade Leslie speaker

Ah, the sweet sounds of the doppler effect – The rotating Leslie speaker design has a unique way of giving sounds a sort of warm temporal quality. There are many electronic simulations attempted but designing and building actual mechanical effects is plain awesome. Update: As a commenter pointed out – the above video doesn’t reflect […]

Periodic table rings

Periodic table rings

For the affluent lover-of-the-elemtents – consider these self-descriptive “periodic rings“. @ $6,500USD for the platinum version, one might enjoy the fact that any onlooker can tell what it’s made of. Hmm, seems there’s no “Al” version available – I declare a remake! Related: Making elemental earrings on the CNC mill Dynamic Periodic Table and MASSIVE […]

Easiest cross-browser CSS min-height

Enforcing a minimum height for block elements in HTML is one of those few CSS tricks that you can’t live without. There are still enough folks using IE6, unfortunately, and it doesn’t support the min-height or min-width CSS parameters. This has caused the invention of a number of different hacks and browser-conditional style sheets to […]

MAKE phone + how-to

MAKE phone + how-to

From the MAKE Flickr pool Pocket-sized decorated his phone to show off the name of his favorite website. He’s also posted an instructable describing the self-powered airbrush/blow-pen technique he used. Looks handy and easy to try – just make sure you don’t inadvertently inhale while painting. Related: Lotek airbrush