Balloon sculptures
Neatorama points to the best collection of balloon sculptures I’ve ever seen – 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.
Texas Instruments Speak and Math Geetar Mod
Get LoFi has a h0t circuit bend – “This revolutionary Texas Instruments Speak and Math Geetar Mod is sure to turn heads after you strap it on and let the glitches rip Jimi Hendrix slylee. I would suggest that the builder used 1×1 inch for the case and PVC for the neck. Of course the […]
HOW TO – Make your sound sing with Vocoders
The O’Reilly Digital Media Center has a fun how to on making Cylon-y sounding voices – “You’ve heard their smoothly sexy yet alien voices. Vocoders are devices that make ordinary sounds sing or speak recognizable words. In this hands-on tutorial, Jim Aikin explains how vocoders perform their magic and how to set up your own […]
Nokia 7610 gaffer tape fisheye mod
Bre writes – “I collect lenses out of cameras and put them on other stuff. I used gaffer tape to make my nokia 7610 have a fisheye.” Full photo set here – Link. If you get bored with your camera phone, this is a lot of fun.
Homemade Star Trek shuttlecraft
David writes – “I’m building a life-sized version of the shuttlecraft used in Star Trek movies. Not finished yet, but you can see where it is going.” – Link. Awesome!
HOW TO – geoTag images (assign latitude and longitude) to Flickr!
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Scalleja writes – “If you want to have the next feature in your photos “Click here to see where this photo was taken” just follow the following steps: 1.- Go to BeeLoop’s Lat/Lon to Flickr’s geoTags page. 2.- Move the map to the desired location and copy the geotagged text […]
HOW TO – Make a DIY mic windscreen (Zeppelin) on the cheap
At a recent conference I met Joel Greenberg and saw that he made a great homemade windscreen, I asked him to cook up a how to, and he did! – this fuzzy project can cut wind noise for a fraction of the price of professional models. – Link.