Zombie Preparedness Kit
And it makes such a lovely macabre objet d’art all the rest of the year. Zombie Preparedness Box
Year: 2009
Intricate Paper Maps of NYC
Sean @ MAKE points us to studiokmo’s 3×4 feet panels, each intricately cut maps depicting Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx, down to the block level. Holy wow! The collection is for sale as a complete set only.
Fake TV camera trend takes over elementary school
This fascinating piece, from This American Life (animated by Chris Ware), tells the story of an elementary school where a couple of kids made a TV camera out of cardboard and tempera paint. Soon, the cardboard camera craze went viral and it seemed like every kid was either a camera operator, an anchor, or some […]
T-Shirt Memory Scarf
While I was cleaning out my closet a few weeks ago, I found an old brown paper grocery bag with the words, “Clothes of sentimental value! DO NOT THROW AWAY!” scribbled on the outside in black marker. Inside were more than a dozen t-shirts and items that I’d saved throughout my life, and I was […]
The gravity-powered xylophones of Charles and Ray Eames
901 documents the dismantling of the offices of famous U.S. designers Charles and Ray Eames following Ray’s death in 19XX. The Eames office was a kind of maker fantasy-land, with finished and unfinished projects scattered about, meticulously organized tools and supplies, and wonderful little gewgaws in every nook and cranny.
The first few minutes of the film feature a delightful bubbling xylophone soundtrack that is eventually revealed to be coming from these prototype toys designed by the Eameses themselves, and installed in their office for their own amusement.
The towers are wooden boxes six inches square and about 15′ tall, fronted with acrylic, and having sides slotted to accept metal xylophone keys which fit loosely enough to allow free vibration and easy rearrangement. The slots for the keys are angled toward one another, slightly, so that the surfaces of the keys present a series of alternately-sloped platforms for a small hard plastic ball which, when dropped from the top of the tower, will plunk its way slowly down to the bottom, playing a little tune as it goes. The balls are injected using a manual pneumatic piston which shoots them up a pipe to the top of the tower.
How-To: Make a Gray-Hoverman DTV Antenna with Naomi and Noah
One of our most searched-on and linked-to subjects is how to make a Gray-Hoverman DTV antenna. In this adorable little video, makers in the making, Naomi and Noah, show you how, proving that it’s so easy, even a child can do it (with a little prompting from dad behind the camera). [Thanks, Paul!] Making a […]
24-hr Microchip Technology giveaway sigma – GO!
The giveaway frenzy continues. Note that the prize bundle has changed slightly this time. Now it consists of one Microchip Technology PIC10F Cap Touch Demo Board and one MCP1252 Charge Pump Backlight Demo Board. Beginning at noon PDT today, and closing at noon PDT tomorrow, we will be accepting comments, below, describing the Halloween-y use […]
