Month: December 2011

Make: Live is Tonight! Holiday Giveaway

It’s tonight! Our holiday episode features some fun project ideas for this festive time of year, and we’ll give away some seriously cheerful electronics prizes to live viewers in the chat from Digi-Key: B&K Oscilloscope Arduino Nano x2 Arduino Mega x2 Weller Soldering Station x3 Fume Extractor x3 1 Pound of Solder x3 Make: Live […]

Digitally Controlled Orchestra

Richard James came up with the idea of controlling a 48 piece string section and a 24 strong choir by remote control, using midi controllers, lots of headphones and some remote visual cues, after being commissioned to write some pieces for the European culture congress in Poland. There was only one opportunity for a rehearsal […]

CyberOptix Tie Lab Ties

Ties are the classic go-to Xmas gift for the dads of the 1950s, but then those hippies came along and now pretty much everyone wears ties for pretty much any reason! So if you’ve got some geeky peeps to cross off your Xmas shopping list, then check out these new CyberOptix Tie Labs ties in […]