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ITP show wrap up…

Ok, I think we posted up a good chunk of the projects from NYU’s ITP show – it’s one of the few events where you can actually see some of the building blocks we cover @ MAKE taken to the extremes when tech-artists do projects, Tom Igoe (author of Making Things Talk) is an instructor […]

ITP show: The naked pixel

ITP show: The naked pixel

The naked pixel is a pretty LCD panel, but it’s actually doing quite a bit more… The maker writes – The Naked Pixel challenges our notion of decency in public arenas by using the entire visual display to represent individual pixels of a nude photograph sequentially over time. By viewing the piece, the audience is […]

Handmade Music on current_tv

Current_tv segment on Etsy Labs’ monthly Handmade Music nights. Homemade Music Makers [via] [Editor’s note – The music nights usually with MAKE, but for this one the entire NYC team was out of town at another event, so that’s why you didn’t see MAKE — our makers were there though! – it’s usually Create Digital […]

The Ping Pong Door

The Ping Pong Door

Every office should have a Ping Pong door. Although productivity would go down by at least 80% once this door is installed. No word on price yet, but this should be a fairly easy project to remake for your home or office. Read more about the Ping Pong Door

Food Sculpture in the NYT

Mary Ellen points us to a lovely article in the New York Times about food sculpture, which has become so popular in the last few years that the Salon of Culinary Art has made a special category just for “produce art.” Check out the incredible slideshow including this scene of rats carved from taro root […]