Take two salad bowls and turn them into a spherical array, ball of sound with amazing results. Thanks go to Michael Zbyszynski for the original article in Make: Volume 11. View the PDF of this project and then pick up Make: Volume 11 here for other great projects you can do over the weekend.
MAKE subscriber Mike Prevette writes in about this incredible homemade Japanese RV. From the site: Ok, this car isn’t nostalgic (or even a car, really), but the idea is timeless. After graduating high school, three Japanese buddies decided to follow their dream of a year-long cross-country road trip, from the northeastern island of Hokkaido to […]
From the MAKE: Flickr pool The VoiceShield from Spikenzie Labs incorporates an audio record/playback chip (ISD4003) and amplifier into an Arduino add-on device – It uses a unique, yet very user friendly, way to access different sound bytes so it is easy to build a “talking” device. It can work with words, complete sentences, or […]
By far one of my favorite iPhone apps, SynthPond provides a blank canvas for sound experimentation, accessed using cell/planet-esque components with individual parameters set by the user or at random. SynthPond’s creator ZachGage writes – synthPond is a music / art piece that I made for the iphone. It’s a spatial synthesizer, and it’s in […]
Beth from Cloth & Fodder took a break from PhD studies to create this “album cover” for a contest. She based it on her Terry the Tarantula tutorial and won the major prize.
Alessandro writes – Facebook Lamp is an RGB led lamp that advise you if you have notifications on facebook changing its color or fading from one to others , the lamp in connected to my laptop via USB and is controlled by a custom software, written by me, able to connect to the web and […]
Yeast under a microscope, via Wikipedia Chelsea Green has 2 great posts with Sandor Katz, author of “The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America’s Underground Food Movements” and “Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods,” on the wonderful world of fermentation. First, here’s license to experiment (if you needed it): More […]
