My friend, experimental musician, media artist, and director of the Culture Lab at Newscastle University, Atau Tanaka, has tweaked up some iPhones to transform them into gestural musical devices. Here he performs with Adam Parkinson: In a duo, with one in each hand, they create a chamber music, 4-hands iPhone. The accelerometers which typically serve […]
The page below, from the Universe of Utah’s Genetics Science Learning Center, shows you how easy it is to extract DNA strands from any living thing (but stay away from living things that might be pissed at you for liquefying a half a cup of them in a blender). The rest of the Learn.Genetics site […]
To quote Golden Girl Sophia, “Picture it: Detroit 2010.” It’s sounding like lots of folks are gearing up to head to the greater Detroit area for Maker Faire and I couldn’t be prouder. As I found out when I went to Maker Faire in San Mateo, this isn’t a one-hour activity. You’ll most likely spend […]
When we last covered Micah Dowty’s efforts in creating a software USB host for the Propeller, he had just gotten it working well enough to talk to a $2 Bluetooth dongle.
The countdown to Maker Faire Detroit is down to T minus 3 days, and we’re hoping you’ll come out and play, learn, and be inspired with us on July 31 and August 1 at The Henry Ford. Among the over 250 projects that will be at the Faire is the Big Scary Robot (BSR) from […]
What would you make for the ultimate MAKEcation with three kids and a wife who loves to repair things?
Time to get serious about that long-overdue MAKEcation.
