Year: 2008

Tupperware synths

Tupperware synths

One electronic instrument in a super-economical enclosure can be quite charming, but building a whole series becomes a stylish design choice ADACHI’s self-made instruments are consists of simple electronic circuit, almost case built in tupperware. They never can make precise pitch, but have good sound and noise, easy to operate and carry and worked by […]

A different kind of pin bot

A different kind of pin bot

A team over at the University of Illinois’ SigArch computer architecture program have fitted a classic 1978 Bally Star Trek pinball machine with a camera, PC board, and relays in an attempt to an answrer the question, “What happens when the computer wants to play a real pinball game?” – A PIC18F452 on the circuit […]

Ping Pong balls make plane buoyant

Ping Pong balls make plane buoyant

Ping Pong balls make plane buoyant Modern Mechanix, 1936. Fun fact, from Donald Duck artist Carl Barks wikipedia entry… A 1949 Donald Duck ten-pager features Donald raising a yacht from the ocean floor by filling it with ping pong balls. In December 1965 Karl Krøyer, a Dane, lifted the sunken freight vessel Al Kuwait in […]

drinkpeedrinkpeedrinkpee

drinkpeedrinkpeedrinkpee

drinkpeedrinkpeedrinkpee is a new eco-exhibit at Eyebeam… What happens when we think of our bodies as their own ecosystems? Are they open or closed ecosystems? Where do we draw the boundaries? Before we take medication, do we ask ourselves how it will affect our internal organs, our friendly bacteria? What is our medication’s future, beyond […]