Joseph Casbaria’s Sequential Resonation Machine manipulates amplified sound via a (very custom) 12-position rotary switch on the console’s face – This switch is controlled by a variable speed DC motor. The signal path is accessed from the patch panel via switch jacks in the center of the panel (2 jack groups). Next, the user can […]
Eagle-eyed Craftzine reader Karl writes in with this sad development: I caught the end of NBC’s Weekend Today last Sunday morning. They were talking about being “green” in every room. When addressing the problem of junk mail, they showed the following stack of paper that contains at least two issues of Craft magazine… Craft (or […]
Mister Jalopy hipped us to these amazing handmade radios from Tom Kipgen. The triangular wonder above is called Radio Moscow (’cause the finned brass plate cap Tom fabbed reminded him of Russian onion domes). As Mister J points out, for something this beautifully crafted, the asking price is a song. Wander the site for other […]
Murphy Mac sent us a link to a handy find/sed command that simulates the DOS tree command that you might be missing on your Mac or Linux box. find . -print | sed -e ‘s;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g’ You can see the result in the image above. Like most things I’ve seen sed do, it does quite […]
Pimp Stitch shares a tutorial for making these utterly cute cat toys made to look like sushi. You could also fill them with lavender and use them as sachets if you don’t have a cat.
We all need materials to make things with, right? Well here is a basic list of a lot of the materials that might be good for making or crafting projects. This list is not intended to be a final list, but rather a starter list. Sources for purchasing these materials were intentionally left out, because […]
Finally, you can recharge your iPod with Clif bars. When the military needed to recharge batteries on the move, they turned to University of Pennsylvania professor Larry Rome, an expert in muscle power and, it turns out, a capable inventor. His solution the world’s first electricity-generating backpack Rome, who studies fish muscles, says the idea […]
