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Kari Byron is currently Twittering live during the MythBusters epidode they’re airing tonight. MythBusters Official on Twitter From MAKE magazine: Want to know how to build a hydrogen rocket? How about a laser light show in a lunchbox? Or a simple remote-controlled videocam car? Or maybe you want to go old-school and build a wooden […]
So I was really stoked this morning to read this post over on the Thingiverse Blog about the advent of OpenSCAD, which does for 3D CAD what POV-Ray did for raytracing. At long last, you can program your 3D CAD models instead of sculpting them. And it’s free! I can hardly wait to try it out.
Wish I’d thought of this gag first. The USB pet rock from ThinkGeek has all the functionality of the original pet rock, but is USB compatible.
For those bored by the portability of thumb drives, a 14GB furniture set designed to encourage data sharing – The sofas were made by creative design studio Cabracega for last year’s International Festival for the Post-Digital Creation Culture (OFFF). As you can see (you’ll have to squint a little) the sofas have USB cables coming […]
Novation’s new Monome-lookalike gets the take-apart treatment over at Illuminated Sounds – For those of you that are curious like myself, here are some images of me disassembling the Novation Launchpad.  I hope this inspires some of you to do some cool modifications to the controller, and make sure to send us some images of […]
This iPhone macro lens carousel mod is a great way to recycle that pile of scavenged optics you’ve got laying around.
MAKE Japan is having a meet up, check out this iPhone instrument! It looks like 3 iPhones mounted to a laser cut body and the player “blows” to produce music!
