Blown glass light bulb animals
Starting at $320, these Blown Ups light bulbs are a little out of my price range, but very interesting. Are there any glass blowers out there who’ve made their own light bulbs? Via Cool Hunting.
Year: 2009
Repurposed Trophy Birthday Cake Topper
I love the whimsical feel of this trophy once it’s coated in fresh paint and surrounded with fun birthday cake topper bits. Elizabeth Holcombe Fedorko created the project using a thrift store find and some basic cake decorating items. I’ve always loved the look of the people on trophy toppers, but have never been a […]
MeggySynth makes music
Move over Tenori-On – dariusk is writing a music synthesizer program (among other things) for the Meggy Jr. RGB kit – This is my first run of a little live performance sound and video device I’m calling MeggySynth. It’s definitely just a proof of concept, I’m hoping to make things more impressive all around. I’ll […]
Mod an R/C car with extra LEDs
Here’s a pretty simple enhancement for R/C vehicles – turn them into mobile flashlights with some extra ultra-bright LEDs! I’m guessing the above example uses the truck’s preexisting battery. Now all it needs is some sweet custom ground effects [via Hacked Gadgets]
How-To: Diagnose keyboard instrument problems
Lorin Parker, creator of the Phantastron, describes his starting point for diagnosing problems with electronic keyboards using an invaluable tool – the human ear. Keep in mind that potentiometers will sometimes still crackle after a thorough cleaning. This usually means the resistive layer has worn through, and the who;e pot needs replacing – but hold […]
Paintball turret gun
Jared Bouck, of Inventgeek, is at it again. He’s just posted details of a paintball turret gun that’s been in the works for several years: This paintball turret system has the ability to be configured as a wired or wireless platform and we have even built it in a way to be portable for rapid […]
HDFS and FUSE – a mountable distributed file system
The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is an open source, distributed file system that’s designed to run on commodity hardware and provide a fault tolerant data store optimized capable of storing extremely large files across many machines. It’s similar in architecture to the Google File System, except that it’s something you can install and play […]