Radio hacker and swing dancer Greg Charvot is at it again with his latest restoration, the Retro Boom Box. His local swing group was in need of a portable radio to use for impromptu Lindy Hopping, so he outfitted a 1940’s radio with modern batteries that they could use while on the run.
I’m digging this giant sand printer by Zana design (no direct link). Who wouldn’t want a giant wheel that they can push around on the beach and leave a message?
The model itself is extremely sophisticated. It packs, among its other components, a HiTechnic gyro sensor, presumably to help it stay vertical, Segwaylike. As an added bonus, the video itself is very slick and engaging. Both are the work of Greek Lego fan NeXTSTORM. [via TheNXTStep]
It was just last summer when I first wrote about the details of my modest craft room on a cart. But I thought that I should throw it up again as part of our craft room theme. I have a wonderful workspace with bright windows and an inspiring view, but it doubles as my dining […]
We’re going to try something out – a lot of makers use “Processing” to make cool interactive art and projects, but there aren’t the same type of high profile examples (source) in the same way there are Arduino examples, so my pal Mike Rosenthal (founder of the BLIP fest) sent along this cool example. If […]
This recording was made and posted by German composer Andreas Bick at a frozen lake in the Berlin area over the winter of 2005. He explains:
Underwater microphones proved especially well-suited for these recordings: in a small hole drilled close beneath the surface of the water, the sounds emitted by the body of ice carry particularly well. The most striking thing about these recordings is the synthetic-sounding descending tones caused by the phenomenon of the dispersion of sound waves. The high frequencies of the popping and cracking noises are transmitted faster by the ice than the deeper frequencies, which reach the listener with a time lag as glissandi sinking to almost bottomless depths.
[via Boing Boing]
I just wanted to let everyone know that Curio for January is up! It’s a collection of a few of the amazing handmade crafts and art objects that have caught our eye this month. As I was gathering them, I realized that while it made a lot of sense to have a section like this […]
