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EnvironDesign is having a contest, I wish I had known about it a little earlier but some of you out there might have something to enter. Details here. “Pull something out of the waste stream and turn it into something of value. Find anything that has been “tossed” into your home trash container, the office waste bin, a dumpster at a construction site . . . wherever you find trash. Then, turn this trash–pieces, parts, duplicates, whatever moves you, and create an object of function or beauty–or even humor–or maybe a piece of art. There are no limitations to size or shape of your new object”.

Those Nelson clocks are really nice looking, but they’re a little pricey. You can make your own, and as an added bonus- it’s edible. Here’s how. You’ll need 12 Tootsie Pops, a cheap clock kit and the bottom of a salt container.

We’ve been posting up all the ways to turn an Altoid tin in to something for electronics, but you can also just use our fav project case as something a little more decorative. Here’s a great guide on covering an Altoids tin with Premo pearl clays. On a related note- I’ve been trying to get a hold of someone at Altoids, anyone have a contact over there?

“Here’s a quick quiz: which of these two speakers sounds better: Speaker A with a frequency response range of 45Hz to 18kHz or, Speaker B with a range of 20Hz to 25kHz? The truth is…” Here’s a great article by Paul Dicomo on eCoustics.com about the frequency response spec and what the information on a frequency response chart means.

The USB LCD device I’m playing/hacking around with now has a forum courtesy of the developers. Here’s what Alex from Gameoptics says “Many of you have had such great insights and questions regarding the GO that I invite you to please share them with the rest of the community. This forum is the means to make GO truly yours and you all know how open we are to your feedback. This forum is now the best means to contact either myself or Vicken Simonian, our Director of Software Development, please take a second to check it out”.

Pixelsumo is a really cool blog with all sorts of posts about using game controllers as music instruments- just added them to my rss reader. One post which Peter Kirn sent my way is the “Mignon Game kit” a DIY kit for creating your own 7 x 5 pixel GameBoy games. Be sure to check out the video!