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Simon Jansen, he of Star Wars ASCIImation, the TARDIS MAME console, Beer Brewing Bender fame, was recently inspired by the 1920s “Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator” that he’d sent us the link to some weeks back. He decided to try and build one. I made my own version, using some brass bits and pieces, a […]
From designer Aristide Antonas. More pictures in his Flickr set. [Thanks, Billy Baque!]
I guess Precious didn’t want AJ the Fiesta having all of the telemetric sensing and twittering vehicular fun. Precious was created as a “smart” bike that can carry his rider, Janeen, across the US to raise money to benefit LIVESTRONG. Precious is outfitted with an array of sensors and a microcontroller, and like AJ, the […]
The latest issue of MAKE, Volume 23, has the easiest plans yet for a machine that turns itself off, and does nothing else (except inspire a cult following). Flip the device’s toggle switch on and a wooden arm emerges, switches it back off, and then disappears inside again. The article was based on a runaway […]
The perfect accessory for zoning out to Netflix with, this oddly appropriate iPad dock modeled after an early ’80s CRT television set was designed by Jonas Damon, creative director for Frog Design’s New York office. It comes complete with grainy television snow screensaver, though a scrambled pay TV signal would add a touch more realism if I recall correctly.
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And we’re back with our tenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. John Gomm did some hacking and came up with an… er, interesting adaptation of the Most useless machine: I rotated the design so it would open as a normal […]
