Allison Kudla’s Green Machine
Allison Kudla has got a live tissue geometric design CNC up and running in New Orleans. It prints live material in patterns which then grow! – Link
Technology
Hacking the Western Digital MyBook World Edition
Western Digital sells a number of external drives under the MyBook World Edition brand. These are network-based external storage drives that you can connect to remotely from multiple machines. Inside are a couple of drives set up in a mirrored RAID configuration, as well as an embedded computer running Linux. MakeFan: tipped us off to […]
Video circuit bending
Evan writes in – A collection of some great video circuit bends. Some have schematics if you want to try them out at home. I stumbled across it a few weeks ago and I was able to make my own dirty mixer within a few minutes. Video circuit bending – Link.
Super Computing photos
Drool worthy photos from Dave Bullock / eecue @ Super Computing 2007 – [via] Link.
HOWTO – Install Leopard on an old G4
The Leopard installer enforces the minimum requirements of 512MB RAM and a 867Mhz CPU. Under normal circumstances, if you have an older G4, you machine won’t meet both of these requirements. The RAM you can buy and upgrade. Nothing new there, but the CPU? Dylan McDermond from Low End Mac posted a hack today which […]
Earrings made from TV and VCR parts
I really like these little robots are built with parts salvaged from discarded TVs and VCRs, avail @ ETSY – Link.
Jimbo the Junkbot
Here’s a build of Mousey the Junkbot where the builder reused more of the mouse by creating wheels out of scroll wheels and using the cord as a tail on the power switch. At this year’s Bay Area Faire, several people asked me, in the spirit of the “junkbot,” why I didn’t try using more […]