Austin has been going nuts this week with all kinds of great events related to SXSW. I’m really looking forward to tomorrow’s Day Party for Craftster and Standard Recording. They’ll be demonstrating the Yudu personal screen printer, and will have craft projects, food, drinks and live music throughout the day. Jenny Hart from Sublime Stitching […]
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Feast eyes upon General Electric’s retro-beautifully animated film explaining the fundamentals of electricity. From the quite excellent Prellinger Collection of the Internet Archive. I had a hunch that electrons were cute and fun-loving, but I never imagined opposing charges being so darn burly! Come to think of it, I knew this little guy looked familiar […]
Make subscriber Matti sends us his recipe for an unusual looping interface – I found this old blender from a flea market and noticed that the names of the different blending modes are very similar to the terminology used in DJing. So I decided to turn this kitchen appliance into a DJ mixer. The audio […]
Arduino Blog reports on Mikael Moerup’s Gobetwino software – a basic proxy between Windows programs and Arduino boards (though it works with other serial-capable devices as well). Using the included command templates, one can write their own sketch capable of doing the following – Start a program on the PC. Start a program, and wait […]
This is such a cool idea! It’s a custom bracelet of a soundwave rendered in 3D. The bracelet is “designed” by the waveform of the message it encodes. The bracelets were originally part of the Sound Advice Project, a teen anti-drug abuse initiative, geared at getting parents to talk to their kids. The idea is […]
Introducing: The N-Prize. The what? “The N-Prize is a challenge to launch an impossibly small satellite into orbit on a ludicrously small budget, for a pitifully small cash prize.” First proposed on Halfbakery, the site for cooking up crazy ideas, the N-Prize has now become a serious endeavor. The prize, of £9,999.99 sterling cash, will […]
