HOW TO – Make your own kaleidoscope
Here’s how to make your own kaleidoscope from Popular Science, 1944 – Link.
Craft & Design
From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
DIY Pillow speaker
Hack124x768 writes – “A $2 DIY replacement of an $8 radio shack toy. Listen to music in bed without uncomfortable headphones! Free mints too!” – Link.
Rebuilding an alternator in Africa
Erik writes – “Bernard took me to see Stephan, an auto mechanic who is a master of fixing things with very few tools or supplies. Stephan is truly amazing, an example of an African who uses his ingenuity to solve problems that would seem insurmountable to others. One of the things Stephan has done, is […]
Mario soup – art from NES cartridges
Ben Fry dumped the ROMs of old NES cartridges and made these cool looking posters – “Any piece of executable code is also commingled with data, ranging from simple sentences of text for error messages to entire sets of graphics for the application. In older cartridge-based console games, the images for each of the small […]
Use graphics tablets for music
I’ve been using a tablet for sketching, and also use Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS to make “pen based” music, so it’s neat to see that there are applications to turn the big tablet into a musical instrument too, Peter writes – “Whether you’re a graphics artist wanting to make music in new ways or […]
Etch-a-Sketch art
Usually we have a few Etch-a-Sketch projects with some robot controlling it or DJ interface, but here’s an incredible gallery of sketches made on an Etch-a-Sketch from artist George Vlosich III… [via] – Link. Related: Robots, computers and DJs Etch-a-sketches – Link.
Tune-o-sapien – Robosapien music mod
Here’s a fun way to add music to a Robosapien V2 – “In an attempt to get my V2 to open up a can of whoopass on V2 Media, I decided to start with an important aspect, music. Adding the ability to play music and sound through V2 allows you to plug in an MP3 […]