Popular Science 1933 – WITH its deep, mellow notes, the electric organ is fast gaining the musical limelight. As a rule, these instruments are large and costly. Yet, for the price of a new hat, you can build a duplicate of a small organ that was featured in a recent coast-to-coast radio broadcast. Complete, the […]
The dedicated video hardware in most modern PCs can perform a number of algorithms at blazingly fast speeds, particularly those involving large matrix or vector operations. PyGPU allows you to access this computational power from a familar high-level language. Haven’t you ever dreamt of writing code in a very high level language and have that […]
Pia van Gelder of Dorkbot Sydney writes: Dorkbot Sydney recently held a two day electronics workshop in Newcastle at a festival called Electrofringe. The workshop was designed by Aras Vaichas an engineer/artist/dorkbotter from Sydney. We posted an account of the festival including details of the two machines we all made (the Nibbler and the Brainlet). […]
J. Eric Townsend of Dorkbot Pittsburgh writes: Join us at brillobox (Thursday 18 October, 7:30-9:30) for this month’s dorkbot pittsburgh. Our speakers will be: – Lori Hepner: Lori is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on aspects of coding through spoken and computer language in digital culture. Ambiguous visual representations of binary code are used […]
The Maker Faire caravan passes by Jack Sparx’s (a.k.a. John Dyer’s) mad scientist’s lair to pick up a cache of high-voltage toys to truck to Austin. Ah… the techno-carny life. Jack Sparx 2K7 takes his toys to Austin! – Link
Tim Higgins had some problems with kids cutting through his yard. His solution is a water cannon sentry that watches the yard and hoses down trespassers. I’m dreaming of making something like this to keep the squirrels off of my tomatoes, so it’s cool to see what worked and what didn’t in Tim’s system. I […]
Think the new iMacs are too big? You haven’t seen anything smaller than the desktop MiniMac. Chunkier than an iPhone with all the nostalgia of late 90s iMacs. MiniMac project page Link
