Nat got a taste of project building with Arduino while creating this rather clever photo frame – Last month my friend Rony and I built a picture frame that can display three images on a single piece of paper. Two of the images are mapped to the red and blue channels and linearly combined, and […]
Crafty Chica, Kathy Cano-Murillo, is posting an Earth Day-inspired project an hour for the 24 hours of Earth Day. It’s still early, and she’s already got cool projects like cigar box birdhouses and a fabric pillow ring. Be sure to check back in with her all day long for all the projects!
Tweet A Sound let’s you design and share synth patches by way of the ever-popular Twitter. The software represents your patch via a compact string of numbers. The 140 character limit keeps your tweakable parameter count relatively low, but this could be welcome if you’ve ever found yourself overwhelmed by the deluge of options common […]
In honor of Earth Day, Scott Matthews of Electro-Harmonix digs up an interesting project from the company’s early days – a mobile demo/showroom powered by umbrella turbine – The inside of the truck was actually a small demo space where guitar players could try out the latest Electro-Harmonix gear (that’s Mike in the white shirt). […]
The weekly Lost Knowledge column explores the possible technology of the future in the forgotten ideas of the past (and those slightly off to the side). Each Tuesday, we look at retro-tech, “lost” technology, and the make-do, improvised “street tech” of village artisans and tradespeople from around the globe. “Lost Knowledge” was also the theme […]
These paper sculptures by Jill Sylvia blow my mind. If Brian Dettmer and Jen Stark had a love-child… With all three of these artists, I just can’t get over the anality involved, the obsessiveness and precision required. Jill Sylvia [via Boing Boing] More: Book Sculptures by Brian Dettmer Old books sculptures Jen Stark – Construction […]
Here’s an intriguing project that comes with the usual cautions about not working with AC house power unless you know what you’re doing, and an extra caution about the risk of burning your house down by trying to roll your own light bulbs. This builder decided to risk all that to reuse the “ballast cases” […]
