Month: July 2011

Plastic from Fish Scales

Plastic from Fish Scales

Erik de Laurens recently graduated from the Royal College of Art. As part of his graduate exhibition, Erik presented his project The Fish Feast. He was experimenting with uses for fish scales (of which the commercial fishing industry discards tons annually) and discovered he could create a useful plasticby forming the cleaned scales under heat and pressure.

Lil’ Spud, a Potato Powered Synth

A potato powered transistor oscillator with light dependent resistor, which gets its power from potato battery. Low power circuit is based off Forrest Mims light-dependent oscillator. Lil’ Spud was created by TECH|DISOBEY|LAB, an experimental art project that explores sounds and visuals through DIY electronics, circuit bending, and self-made instruments; utilizing electronic salvage and reclaimed materials […]

Make: Live ep13 preview

Make: Live ep13 preview

The next episode of our streaming show and tell Make: Live is a special broadcast from Maker Faire Detroit, live from the Henry Ford this Friday. Join us as we celebrate the kickoff of a weekend of making in the Mitten at the worlds largest DIY festival. Go to https://makezine.com/live to watch the show live on Friday, July 29th at 5:30pm ET/2:30pm PT.