Bill Gurstelle is a Contributing Editor for MAKE magazine. His most recent book is entitled Absinthe & Flamethrowers: Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously. You can follow Bill on his danger-quest at twitter.com/wmgurst. He is a guest Make: Online author for the month of August. Thanks to Gareth and all my Maker […]
Tokyo-based artist/programmer Daito Manabe posted this demo video of what appears to be a visually interactive laser setup with generative sound – Alvaro Cassinelli: concept, software and hardware development Daito Manabe: sound concept and sound generation Kuribara Yusaku: latest software development including contour tracking and interface Stephane Perrin: participated in early development of the smart […]
A few years ago, Monster Crochet shared a skeleton antimacassar she made for Halloween. She’s just released the charts for creating your own skeleton antimacassar in knit, crochet or cross stitch. This would be a fun project to tackle to count down to Halloween, but I imagine you’d need to get started right away!
I built the Mechamo Crab kit a while ago and really enjoyed the experience. I finally got around to making my Mechamo Centipede kit, which has been sitting in my studio for many months! The entire build took a few hours, but I’ll spare you all the details and speed it up a bit, well, […]
Turned off by the unreliability of DVD players artist Tim Tate developed custom electronics for use in these glass bulb video memorials. See more examples and listen to an interview on NPR’s All Tech Considered. [Thanks, Scott!]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Zackaholic made this rather unique powered desktop speaker with some neat features – It’s a speaker… in a phone! The kind of cool thing is that the power switch is wired to the phone cradle switch so to turn it on you just take the phone off the hook. It […]
DAAP industrial design student Kyle A Koch designed and fabricated this useful flat pack copy stand for the iPhone. It will copy a standard letter-sized sheet with reasonable fidelity.
