“Security is mostly a superstition,” wrote Helen Keller. “It does not exist in nature… Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” If you know someone whose life is lacking excitement, perhaps you can kick start 2010 by giving them a few badly-needed thrills. But you don’t want to go overboard, so we’ve developed the […]
Wow, not sure how I missed this one – the Bliptronic 5000, a relatively low-cost (aka hackable) melody grid sequencer from ThinkGeek. The 50-dollar device sports 8 casio-esque voices, tempo control, and can be linked up with additional units to play longer sequences. CDM posted an interview with product dev Ty Liotta revealing a very […]
Seattle’s 5th annual Urban Craft Uprising is this weekend! If you’ve never been, be sure to make it out Saturday or Sunday to meet and greet with some of the coolest, kindest crafters with the most awesome handmade creations west of the Mississippi. Line up early to get your hands on the famous swag bags, […]
Christiane Keller created an incredibly rich environment where people can interact with information as if it were present in space: dataMorphose is an interactive installation which projects data into real space and visualizes it three-dimensionally. Information is represented by spanned and moving sails directly in the room. Thus abstract and virtual data becomes real and […]
Every now and then we all need a break from making things. So sit back, relax, and enjoy “Our Place in the Cosmos” by Symphony of Science.
Liesl from oliver + s shares her pattern for making these cute miniature mitten ornaments. She also shows how she’s transforming her mini-mittens into an advent calendar.
Though it’s understandably not a high priority for most electronics manufacturers, the aesthetic quality of a circuit board can be pretty important to those of us hacker/maker/experimenter types who often end up using electronics sans enclosure. Seeed Studio pushes the envelope a bit with their multi-solder-mask Rainbowduino – Nobody knows what it will be like, […]
