The Genie Lets Music Tech Out of the Bottle
The Genie is a guitarist who surrounds himself with a phalanx of tech that drops more grooves than a five piece band. Find out how he does it.
Month: May 2013
Custom-Made Celebrity Dresses
Artist Erin Pearce is creating a series of dresses made from custom printed fabrics featuring images of celebrities like Larry David, Jason Alexander, Patrick Stewart, and Natalie Portman.
WGBH Creates Space-Based Curriculum for Kids
Our friends at WGBH’s Design Squad have come up with a great line up of activities for kids interested in NASA and the final frontierโspace. The materials are designed for the classroom and after school programs, but with summer vacation a few weeks away, it would be easy to plug these resources into summer activities for adults looking to give kids something to do over the lazy days of summer. It’s basically a plug-and-play curriculum.
Control Paramecia with an EEG Headet
Combine an ECG headset with an Arduino to control paramecia! Paramecia display a behaviour known as galvanotaxis: movement in response to an electrical field. If an electrical field is generated across the water they are swimming in, they will turn to orient themselves to the field and will swim towards the cathode (negative terminal). The […]
Faster-Than-Downwind Cart on the Market
The famous faster-than-the-wind cart that caused such a stir on the MAKE blog, is up for sale!
How-To: Purse Strap Cushion
Add comfort and style to your favorite handbag with this purse strap cushion tutorial from Making Life Beautiful.
Polyphonic Drum Machine
Sebastian Tomczak’s DIY Polyphonic Drum Machine and Rhythm Looper is powered by a Teensy micrcontroller. I’ve made a simple drum machine / looper. It is for Teensy but it can be easily ported to Arduino. It has four sounds, a 16-subdivision pattern, variable sample rate and can playback all four sounds at once.
