Musical toaster makes you play for your baked goods
Flickr user zachaholic built this VU toaster, using a sound volume meter to directly control the heat of the toaster
Year: 2010
How-To: Make a Travel Love Shrine
CRAFT is celebrating love, glitter, and craftiness with the Crafty Chica Love Shrine Challenge. Preserve your memories and tell your love story by building a shrine that creatively reflects your personality and expresses your hopes and dreams. I’ve been going crazy making these shrines! They are such great ways for me to use my ephemera […]
Open Structures: Help create an open-source building system
Open Structures is a set of standards allowing product designers and architects to create hackable items — for instance, a sink or a bicycle — which could be recombined into new inventions. The system’s starting point is a 4x4cm grid that all components must accommodate. [The] project explores the possibility of a modular construction model […]
MacGyver of the Day: Mad Scientists Lenore Edman and Windell Oskay @ Lifehacker
B00m – I have another post on Lifehacker with a favorite maker(s) I’m profiling each day – today… MacGyver of the Day: Mad Scientists Lenore Edman and Windell Oskay!
Holographic head projection music video
Anybody have any guesses how this was done? Neurosonics Live on Vimeo by Will clark, JFB, and Beardyman. Just a little warning, there’s a little bit of swearing at the very end of the video. [Thanks, Jamie!]
Homemade Taffy Recipe
Cindy at Skip to My Lou shares her recipe for making homemade taffy and shows the fun afternoon of making taffy with the kids. I love the photos of them trying to pull and stretch the taffy. It’s hard work!
DIY PVC submarine
Jason Rollette’s remotely-operated submarine packs four 500gph and two 1,250gph bilge pumps, with the bigger ones used for propulsion. Check out his incredibly detailed tutorial for instructions on how to build your own. [via Hack a Day] More: Record-vying transatlantic robot submarine at sea Beached submarine home theater Chinese maker’s homemade submarine