A while back Schenectady Museum curator Chris Hunter came across some old pallophotophone recordings from radio station WGY. “What’s a pallophotophone?”, you might ask. Also known as the RCA Photophone, it’s an early recording device developed by GE researcher Charles Hoxie. GE Engineer Russ DeMuth, recreates a pallophotophone from Hoxie’s original design and manages to extract some rather interesting recordings.
In Wired’s “Raw File,” they have a charming piece about typewriter repair shops and repairmen, profiling three shops in the Bay Area: Despite these inefficiencies, there are a few places where typewriters still clack away. New York City police stations, the desks of a few stubborn hangers-on, and, increasingly, the apartments of hip young people […]
June is DIY Wedding month here on CRAFT, and we’ve posted a number of projects from previous issues of CRAFT magazine in the past. Here’s a roundup of 3 lovely wedding projects. First up, from CRAFT Volume 06, learn how to create delicate nylon flowers to dress up a wedding gown, veil, or centerpiece (pictured […]
Sean @ Make: Online spotted this shelf made entirely from recycled copies of National Geographic magazine. Designer Sean Miller is responsible for this unique home decor: Sean coated the magazines with a a water/starch mixture and then he placed them under pressure for about a week to harden. Next he took a band saw to […]
Here’s a nice mini-documentary on kinetic sculptor/automata-maker Steve Armstrong. The video goes into a fair amount of detail on his design and building process. Motion: The Automata of Steve Armstrong
Laurens Valk shares how to make a Lego Segway using a standard NXT set plus a HiTechnic gyro sensor. One of the most notable features of the robot is that it packs NXT-G, the unadmired “default” programming language driving the NXT microcontroller brick. Up until now, all Lego Segways used one of the high-octane alternatives […]
Today is the first stop for the Whip Up Mini Quilts Blog Tour to celebrate the new book, Whip Up Mini Quilts by Kathreen Ricketson (published by Chronicle Books). I am a huge fan of her craft blog, Whip Up which posts up daily inspirations and all sorts of crafting finds. Whip Up Mini Quilts […]
