Year: 2009

Relay organ plays the sound of switching

Relay organ plays the sound of switching

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 […]

Cassette Tape Crafts

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 […]

Tinkering School @ Ted

Tinkering School @ Ted

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 […]