Inauguration Made Out of LEGOs
Legoland California re-created Obama’s inauguration in LEGOs complete with Aretha Franklin and John Roberts. via ThreadBanger. Related MAKE Inauguration, as seen from space
Month: January 2009
Hello Kitty Death Cake
Hello Kitty Hell has a picture of this Hello Kitty death cake. There’s no back story, but I would love to receive a cake like this. via Crafty Crafty.
Collapsible photo lightbox on the cheap
A simple and portable design for evenly lit object shots – In a quest to build myself a lightbox for some product-type photography, I managed to throw together this little solution using $18 of surgical tubing, doweling, some zip ties, and a dollar store plastic table cover. So far so good! I foresee an update […]
DIY SX-150 sequencer console
artrat801’s thorough SX-150 mod/conversion rehouses the analog synth kit as a desktop console along with a ‘sq-150’ homemade sequencer. Nicely done, those wood side panels that just seem to whisper “analog”, don’t they? [via Matrixsynth]
Keyboard synth from salvage
The Astra synthesizer from Not Breathing – 2 VCOs, 2 LFOs, VCF, noise source, ring modulator all built from salvaged parts the keyboard is from a gutted lowrey wandering genie keyboard. i recycled most of the capacitors in the unit from the genie and a dead tr606 […] i didn’t buy anything for this unit. […]
Building a HF start box
A high-frequency (HF) start box is a device used in AC arc welding that allows you to start an arc welder without having to “scratch-start” the arc. You used to be able to buy such an add-on device; apparently, they’re now hard to find. William F. Dudley Jr. decided to build his own and shares […]
Web-based household power usage monitor
Power usage monitors like the Kill-A-Watt are pretty cool, but what if you want to monitor usage for your whole house? What if you want to track usage in real time throughout the day, without stepping outside to read the power meter? What if you could do all this without messing with mains voltage. Kevin […]