Youtuber ffoitl shares this refreshing take on the MIDI synthesizer, utilizing the acoustic side effects of a relay switch – a musical instrument inspired by elisha gray’s “musical telgraph” one of the first electric/electronic musical instruments ever. it’s basically a relay oscillator than be “tuned” to various frequencies via midi controlled capacitors. in the video […]
MAKE will be at the NYC Toy Fair 2009 – last year we had some MASSIVE coverage from the event and hope to bring you a DIY/Science view of the show again, while we skip a lot of the “toys” we do head right for the science and learning companies – last year one of […]
Chung Dha Lam of Maassluis, Netherlands, made some easy, funky business cards and shows you how to make your own in this video. He used recycled cereal box cardboard and rubber stamps to make it all his own. These would be perfect for makers with funky professions, or for making friends at Maker Faire.
I recently made a t-shirt for my son using the cassette tape stencil from the Stencil 101 book. I thought it was so cool, and when I excitedly showed him, he just looked at me … puzzled. “What is that thing, mom?” he asked. I was crushed to realize he had never even seen a […]
New NYC based hacker group HTINK has a day of workshops coming up for the electronically curious – perfect for those looking for a some orientation in the Arduino world. Eric writes – This is a combination of 3 workshops, being offered over 5 hours. Anyone can come buy and build a freeduino kit while […]
Sometimes you need a handy mobile storage device to move files around between locations. You could use a flash drive or an external disk, but why not make use of that 16GB phone that you carry with you all the time? iPhoneDisk is a MacFUSE based filesystem for the iPhone. Simply install MacFUSE, then install […]
At the TED conference last week, Gever Tulley gave a three-minute talk about his Tinkering School, a summer program that he’s created for kids. He’s created a comic-book version of his talk on tinkeringschool.com. Gever’s on to something with his comic-book format. He adds: The idea of converting a presentation to a comic book has […]
