Chandelier Makeover
Vickie Howell transforms an ordinary plain chandelier into a hot pink beauty for her future daughter’s nursery. Learn how you can do this too with her chandelier makeover tutorial.
Year: 2009
Easy, cheap homeless dome
Young maker Max Wallack designed this system for using plastic, wire, and packing peanuts to construct a shelter for homeless people and disaster victims, and he won a hefty design prize for it. Keep up the good work, Max! Via Geekologie. Update: Chris Connors covered this event in more detail, and even gave Max a […]
Scissor Buddha
This Buddha made entirely of scissors is one sculpture in a New Delihi, India clothing store that’s also made entirely of scissors. Besides having scissor walls, scissor doors, scissor windows, and scissor hangers, the store also has several sculptures of scissor art. [ via NOTCOT ]
Austin event: get (circuit) bent
Check out this circuit-bending Austin celebration tonight: No cover charge, and all-ages friendly. Map here; hope to see you there!
Cooler Master’s 5-CPU single-case PC
Cooler Master shows off a “because we can” mod of a five quad 2 core CPU system (20 x single cores) stuffed inside of a single ATCS 840 PC case. 53GHz worth of computing power. A Cooler Master 1000W Real Power M PSU was used to power everything. And they used 2.5 HDDs to reduce […]
Sudo Make Me A Sandwich Robot
Bre and Adam’s Sudo Make Me A Sandwich Robot.
DIY mini-mellotron sampling keyboard
Gijs Gieskes’ Motor Keys instrument produces some beautiful sounds. Reminiscent of the legendary Mellotron tape sampling keyboard, the project uses the popular ATMega168 chip and a modest part count. PCB image and source code is available on Gijs’ site. [via Synthtopia] For a similar project using multiple cassette players, check out Bre and Eric’s walkman […]