MAKE presents: The Diode
It’s the simplest semiconductor device made. It ushered in the age of radio, the electronic valve that rectifies and regulates – the diode!
Year: 2009
Steve’s cigar box guitar
MAKE advisory board member Steve Lodefink made this totally snazzy cigar box guitar and posted pics to Flickr. To Dinosaurs and Robots, he sent the above pic of a cigar box amplifier experiment he tried. He writes: I thought that it would be cool to build in amp inside the guitar, you know, so that […]
Cereal box notebooks
This was posted next door on CRAFT, but I thought it was interesting enough to post here too. I use the pocket-sized Moleskine Cahiers and they look just like this. I actual did make one of my own, using some black lightweight card stock and 1/10 graph paper inside. It was easy. I saddle-stitched it […]
Stylish game grip for iPhone
This cool-looking GameGrip for iPhone came out today in Japan from Trinity, a company that makes lots of cool-looking accessories for Apple products
Phoenix Art Exhibition: Imagined Geographies
If you live in or around Phoenix, you probably know about the monthly art walk that happens on the first Friday of every month. The Arizona State University School of Art is putting on a huge and awesome show this upcoming Friday at Bragg’s Pie Factory; it will include metal, fiber, video, wood, and lots […]
Sculpture made entirely out of welding wire
Tomás Libertiny made this sculpture entirely out of solder, using a stationary welder setup and a welding turntable. It was at the Design/Miami Craft Punk exhibit at Milan design week, hence the Fendi welding suit. Via Cool Hunting.
Latest Fatman and Circuit Girl vids
Here are some recent video clips from George Sanger and Jeri Ellsworth, aka The Fatman and Circuit Girl. In the first vid, Jeri attempts to build a Sprinthariscope, a tool for viewing radiation, using the radioactive Americium from a smoke detector. She also attempts to pronounce Sprinthariscope and Americium. All three attempts fail, but it […]