Patchwork Apple
This is such a cute way to use up your scrap fabric by turning it into this adorable patchwork apple by The Wool Food Mama.
Month: March 2009
Vintage Suitcase Transformed Into Mobile Craft Case
Betty of Bitter Betty Blogs transformed an old hard-side suitcase into a fantastic portable craft case. I’ve always loved old suitcases, but can’t justify collecting loads of them if they just end up sitting in our storage closet. This might be just the permission I need to go scoop some up at the thrift store.
Building a Ruben’s Tube
Tinla put together a Ruben’s Tube sound-to-flame visualizer on the cheap netting some nice results. The basic idea is that you have a length of pipe with hole drilled along the top. The ends are sealed, at one end there is a speaker and at the other end there is a gas source. Once the […]
Every possible 4-bit 32 sample waveform … eventually
Recently, Sebastian of the Little-Scale blog has been conducting some interesting experiments in sound synthesis with Max/MSP. The above is the output of a patch designed to playback all 4-bit 32 sample waveform conceivable – There are 16 ^ 32 possibilities. The patch plays 100 different waveforms for every second, at a constant frequency of […]
EDAR makes shelter
Marketplace introduced me to the idea of the convertible shopping cart the other morning. The problem is that people need a place to live, and that a decent shelter can be provided by working off the form of the shopping cart. By providing a personal place for people, homeless people can begin to regain their […]
Experimental tongue music
Hye Yeon Nam shares this demo of a music controller made for mouths – The Tongue Music system is an experimental instrument using the tongue, rather than the hand, to generate sounds. There is one person performing in front of projector, which displays an abstract video image consisting of hundreds of dots. The performer controls […]
Rural celly charger
Image from Women of Uganda Network The Women of Uganda Network has an interesting story of a woman who got scammed at a cell phone charging business. Mrs. Muyonjo is a housewife in a remote village of Ivukula in Iganga district, Eastern Uganda. She used to ride her bicycle for twenty miles in order to […]