Peter Redmer, of Caffeinated Pixels, is one happy little wirehead. For Christmas this year, his dad, an electrical engineer, built him a tube amp and a set of speakers for his iPod. Here’s dad on the specs: Amplifier: In order to keep the design small, I am using a hybrid design for the amplifier. A […]
Best use of shag carpet ever Here’s a great overview of different ways to refrigerate: “Your refrigerator is one of the largest consumers of energy in your home. In an average home, refrigeration burns 125 watts per hour. You can, of course, take steps to reduce the amount of electricity your refrigerator uses–by shag carpeting […]
After Professor Fzz’s wireless base station died, he found himself continually looking at where it use to be to monitor the activity lights during downloads. He wanted to replace it with something else to help him visualize this data — the Internet Pressure Gauge was born. The electronics are probably overkill for this application, but […]
Instructables user frenzy put it well in this “Putting A Car Horn On Your Bicycle” Instructable: I’ve found in my biking adventures, drivers are aloof, distracted and just plain blind to us little pieces of metal on the road. I’ve also found giving a little shout before a driver makes a right hand turn with […]
I really like the effect that’s used in Invisibilia, a series of photographs that have had the subject replaced with an illustration: Maybe the pictures illustrate the idea that we all want to remove ourselves from life, and replace ourselves with fictional, self-created versions of ourself. We want to fictionalise our own existence, and impose […]
Over at Audio Cookbook, John Keston has been running a few experiments with using image filters in Photoshop to process sound. Running the audio data through a Gaussian blur or Spherize filter, he was able to create some incredibly diverse effects from a simple electric piano input. To test this concept I created a simple […]
Mikey and Wendy created a wonderfully concise wine-making video: Just what I needed to get over the “there’s too many interesting things to read about this project and complications to explore before ever getting started” barrier. $3 gallons of wine, here I come! Skeptical about the quality? Check out the first recipe on this page. […]
