Here’s my take on bending the Coleco Talking Teacher toy. Four bends have been added: short glitch loop, long glitch loop, unsteady long glitch loop, and pitch adjustment. A side cart was added to make room for the controls. This is one of the most stable talking toys I have bent. The long and short […]
We have a massive 4’X3′ poster of the cover of Bjork’s Homogenic album hanging in my husband’s home office. It’s a souvenir from one of the best live music events I’ve ever experienced in my life: a Bjork concert in a gorgeous old theater in Florence, Italy back in 1997. My kids are actually a […]
The design of this collection of 1960s library posters is positively delightful. Flickr user, Enokson, found them “while digging through old library stuff.” It’s hard to pick a favorite, but I’m partial to the space-themed ones. [via @whatkatiedoes] More: How-To: Retro Sci-Fi Poster @Craftzine.com blog
With a desire to find out how a deep display would look, video artist Blair Neal created the Crayolascope, a fantastic 3D depth display out of a dozen hacked Crayola Glow Books.
In an effort to shave off precious microseconds from the tedium of having to manually switch modes in his favorite multi-modal text editor, Aleksandr Levchuk fashioned a USB clutch pedal to do the job. Now, instead of typing an “i” to insert text or hitting to edit it, Aleksandr need only tap the pedal to enter the corresponding mode.
Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda, here I am at… MAKE Labs? This week marks the beginning of summer, and that means more daylight hours and more time for making. With so many exciting projects always littered across every horizontal surface of our offices (currently from the new School’s Out special issue and many Weekend Project prototypes) […]
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
