It may still be too cold and gloomy outside to go for a scenic bike ride, and if you want to ride for exercise, you may find yourself staring at a boring wall, pedaling to nowhere. Instructables user dedlast made this book stand for his wife to mount on her bike for stationary riding. Better […]
I love doe-c-doe’s idea of using packaging from vintage trims as gift tags. Even better, I love that she’s scanned a few vintage trim packages and altered them for the perfect variety of gift-giving needs and has offered them up as a PDF for download. Enjoy!
Mark Dalzell brought a Thingamakit over to the dark side and came back with the above seen Thingamakill. It appears the transformation brought a few additional features, including what appears to be control inputs for each oscillator, master pitch and power starve pots. The original LEDicles seem to have survived the journey intact. [via MatrixSynth] […]
Inspired by Michael Una’s DIY footcontroller AlexMC built this 21-switch array for use with Ableton Live software. The magic ingredient here is a basic USB keyboard, but Alex also posted his plans for building the MDF enclosure plus a cheap source for switches over on the Ableton forums. [via Create Digital Music]
After World War II, Thor Heyerdahl and his signal corps buddies arranged an adventure of a quieter, calmer, lower tech sort. After arranging backing for their research project, the Kon-Tiki, they went down to South America, and built a raft from balsa logs and sailed it across the Pacific. For more than a century scientists […]
Mike is looking for info regarding an unusual timekeeping device he came across – At present I have no documentation for this clock, and it has no markings other than the labels for the controls and external connections, such as “LPS OFF”, meaning lamps off, “RESET”, meaning set the time, etc. Internally it is evidently […]
Our Photo Editor, Sam Murphy, sent us a link to this amazing working Chevy V8 motor model, emailed to her by her dad (thanks, dad!). The model engineer is Jim Moyer, and he has several breathtaking models on his site. This V8 is 1/6th scale, based on the 1964 327 cu. in. Corvette engine. The […]
