Garth Johnson of ExtremeCraft.com is writing a book called 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse . Submissions are open until March 13th. From the site: We are seeking submissions for 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse, an upcoming book by Garth Johnson of ExtremeCraft.com, which will feature 21st Century craft and design, all made with recycled, upcycled, […]
O’Reilly GMT has posted a Flickr set from the recent Makers and Hackers event: Makers and Hackers was a stupendously good day, taking place aimultaneously in London and Sheffield, organised by Tinker.it and Folksy, respectively. Makers and Hackers, London, Feb 28th 2009 – a set on Flickr [via Craig Smith on Twitter]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Another compelling artifact from Ranjit’s adventures in musical instrument making – Instrument-a-day 24: Mobius Music It’s a familiar tune played upside-down and backwards, and then just backwards, and then upside-down and backwards again. Over and over, forever. Looks like he’s using a DIY music box kit. Hmmm, anyone decipher the […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool The tableTalk project aims to emphasize social interactivity by way of illuminating common space – We see our prototype as a cultural piece and not as a problem solving gadget. We want our technology to be secondary, or on the periphery to the bigger picture, giving the participants a visually […]
Vimeo user barnone created a hybrid Monome/Thingamakit – the Bleepnome. There’s a lot going on in the above setup! He clarifies a bit – Yeah the bleepnome has 2 photocell tenticles and 2 led tenticles. So it reacts to light on the monome to change either pitch or modulation. The multiscreen aspect of SevenUpLive lets […]
Make subscriber Nic used Arduino plus Parallax RFID reader/tags to make his Squeezebox network music player a bit more physically intuitive/interactive. I’m not the first to think of controlling music with RFID, somebody made a pretty neat player called PlayStand way back in 2002. But its RFID reader was plugged directly into the PC. I […]
C’mon, tell me that doesn’t make you go “awwww” and wanna cavort with butterfly swarms and woodland creatures. Get the hi-res template here. [Via the MAKE Flickr pool]
