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Cake Art

Phil @ MAKE writes: Some people say “You can’t have your cake and eat it too” – but it’s cake, that’s all cake does is get eaten and if you’re lucky your cake might even look like one of these – [via] Link. Related cakery: Thorax cake – Link. Make an erupting volcano cake – […]

Super NES RCA video mod

Super NES RCA video mod

Sashi writes – Well, I was sick of having to dig behind my TV to exchange the cable from my Nintendo 64 to play my SNES. So I figured why not install two RCA jacks so I can plug it directly into the front of my TV. Sashi’s Architecture – [via] Link. Related: SNES/NES controller […]

Maker Faire: Kite Aerial photography

Maker Faire: Kite Aerial photography

For anyone who likes kites and photography, make sure to check out MAKE author Cris Benton’s demonstrations of Kite Aerial Photography at the Faire: Who needs satellite photography? Get a kite’s-eye view of what’s happening down below. See how you can make your own aerial photography apparatus at home. Cris Benton will illustrate the evolution […]

ReMake at ACCRC in Berkeley

ReMake at ACCRC in Berkeley

Dale writes – Following the Earth Day recycling push and just weeks before Maker Faire, James Burgett and his team of ACCRC (www.accrc.org) in Berkeley hosted a ReMake event at this unique electronics recycling center in Berkeley. Alex Handy, who lived up to his name, organized a nametag table where you popped keys off a […]

BENT day III

BENT day III

BENT NYC, the circuit bending fest in NYC is over, I can’t hear anything but glitchy bleeps, and that’s OK. During the day Todd Bailey’s electronics worksop was really good and this was the best music night so far, my favorite was loudobjects, they solder up a live circuit bend on an overhead projector – […]