Mutation Sensation
Vacamaca put together this goofy plushie mashup on Instructables.
Year: 2009
Fashioning Technology book excerpt: Sewing Soft Circuits
We’ve just posted a PDF excerpt from our first Craft book, Syuzi Pakhchyan’s Fashioning Technology. The book covers everything you need to know to get started making wearable electronics, smart toys, furniture, and home decor. It’s a very cool book that gives you the skills and inspiration to make some amazing things. Here’s a taste […]
Zinc-based audio oscillator
Nyle posted this multitrack recording featuring sounds from a homemade Zinc oscillator circuit – An electronic sound composition is made entirely of sounds produced using zinc negetive resistance audio oscillator circuits. No vacuum tubes or transistors were used to generate the sounds. Several tracks of the zinc oscillator sounds were recorded one at a time. […]
Electrified Monopoly board
Not to be outdone by her sister Kris, Carly DeGraeve sent us this link to her latest electrified Monopoly board. It lights up the four props in the center of the board when you land on the appropriate squares. She used reed switches and magnets to complete the circuit. Electrified Monopoly – Steampunk Inspired More: […]
Ad-hoc Adirondack Chairs
Luke @ MAKE points us to this neat trick up at Inhabitat: Design students Jeffrey Gerlach and Andrew Stanley have instituted an informal furniture catch-and-release program. With just a few steps, they have discovered a way to construct a clever and stylish Adirondack chair using Department of Public Works roadblocks that are simple, easy-to-assemble, and […]
Grid Chair looks like a wireframe model
Designer Jaebeom Jeong built this lovely chair with stainless steel, and walnut, yet it looks like the wireframe 3D NURBS model that you’d see in your design software. It’s not the concept, it’s the final product. I would love to get an entire dining set done in this style, so that people think we’re just […]
Cannibalizing parts from compact florescents
This isn’t the sharpest Instructable on the site, but I like the idea that people are starting to see what sorts of useful projects they can do with the innards from dead CF light bulbs (such as, in this case, a step-down DC-DC converter and a Joule thief). Make cool gadgets from a deceased fluorescent […]
