Either it’s feeding time on the wire farm, or Leon Dewan is testing another one of his exquisite designs. Actually pretty sure it’s the latter as I do recall the Hymnotron at one of Dewanatron’s performances a while back. The completed lever-controlled instrument looked like some kind of religious furniture – about the size of […]
Pandaman0529 shares his steps for a very interesting guitar mod – So what exactly are scalloped frets? Scalloping a fretboard is when you remove wood from the fretboard so that when the guitar is played, the fingers only contact the string, not the wood underneath, eliminating massive amounts of friction. It is much easier to […]
Jack spends some quality tinkering time controlling a small keyboard with a Drawdio kit – This is the synaesthesia-sizer I invented for my girlfriend Kelsey. We’ll be giving a class on DIY pencil synthesizers at The Hacktory in Philadelphia on June 27th, 2009. Please come! I’m guessing that’ll be a fun class @ the Hacktory […]
Media player, mobile phone, Internet device, gaming console… sketch pad? It would seem that not only is the iPhone up-ending the mobile and gaming industries, but it seems to be making inroads into fine art as well.
Last week, I spoke at the GO-Tech meeting, which was held at the A2 Mechshop in Ann Arbor, MI. I was there for a terrific demo of aluminum casting by Rick Chownyk. He was not only well-informed but very entertaining. Rick began with a styrofoam mold he had created already. He had built his own […]
I’m a rebel. I’ve always tried to avoid picking up habits from my parents. What can I say? I’m just anti-authority and I love to teach myself. So despite almost 30 years of fighting it, I have finally realized you can’t always deny the effect your dad has on you. And for that, I consider […]
Make a printed Father’s Day card in 10 minutes using a polystrene pizza plate as a canvas from Jox of The Knitted Blog.
