Month: June 2010

Make: Projects – POSC handheld audio oscillator

Make: Projects – POSC handheld audio oscillator

When you first turn the POSC on, the LED will light for a fraction of a second. If you’ve got it hooked up to an amplifier, it’ll also squawk for a second. Playing it is as easy as licking your finger and tapping, rubbing, pressing, or smearing it across the two contacts. The amount of incident light on the photoresistor controls the frequency, so experiment with playing it under different lighting conditions. Jim and Kat have produced a bunch of software for digital post-processing of the POSC signal. For mroe info, see the Sonodrome website.

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How-To: Dried Fruit Rolls

Instructables user tcup120 writes: Fruit rolls are fun to eat, and not too hard to make. Inspired by Fruit Rollups and Fruit Leather, I made a fresh variation with no sugar added. WIth my families allergies, sack lunches were almost always in order. But what to pack? These are cute and healthy options that will […]

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Fifty years of squares

Fifty years of squares

Sci-fi and horror author extraordinaire, John Shirley (whom William Gibson dubbed “Cyberpunk Patient Zero”), sent me a link to this fascinating article about the birth of the square pixel in digital imaging. The piece starts out: Russell Kirsch says he’s sorry. More than 50 years ago, Kirsch took a picture of his infant son and […]

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Summer Stripes

I have such a thing for stripes, so I couldn’t help oohing and ahhing over this stripe project roundup over at Martha Stewart. I love the way the ideas make more stripes in your life using materials that come easily to hand, like tape, paint, and ribbons, or simply just rearranging objects!

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