From the MAKE Flickr pool JoeLMutantE lives up to his name with this monster sound & light machine born from two Thingamakit boards and a whole lotta wiring – This is a little MutanT based on the Thingamakit noise-synth. It has trhee diferent led-acles (led tentacles) and a pair of sense-acles (photo-sensor tentacles) that react […]
Last month, I was excited to see that Mimi Kirchner had created a doll pattern especially for The Purl Bee. Now she’s at it again, and this time she’s created a pattern for her popular Tiny World Make-Do pincushion. After she launched her doll pattern for Purl Bee, she asked her blog readers to vote […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Routing MIDI data to/from Arduino (or similar) seems like it should be a relatively simple task, but often ends up being much more complex. Mark of Spikenzie Labs created a very handy piece of software for just such occasions. Built using Processing, the Serial – Midi Converter translates makes that […]
Last summer, I went with several youth leaders from Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn to hear Paul Polak speak. He was one of the opening speakers for the IDDS conference hosted by D-Lab at MIT. He appeared on Fresh Air last year: Paul Polak, founder of the nonprofit International Development Enterprises, has spent 25 […]
Wow, Jim’s skull art is completely breathtaking. Via Who Killed Bambi? More: Pill head / Numb skull Latch hook skull
Last week, our guests on Make: Talk were Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne of Homegrown Evolution. We talked to them about their book, Urban Homestead (Process Media), their blog, and their urban farming efforts. A couple of good points were made: that you don’t have to do urban “homesteading” with any sort of crunchy-granola political […]
As we’ve pointed out here before, the holy grail, the killer app, of robot domestication appears to be robots that can serve drinks. PopSci has posted a piece about former Battlebots competitor Jamie Price and his bartender bot: A veteran of the TV show Battlebots, Jamie Price has built plenty of destructive machines. But late […]
