Colin has a great collection of electronics projects for musicians over on Experimentalists Anonymous, he writes – “I’ve been building and modifying effects and other audio devices for quite some time now, anything from a simple circuit bend to a ground-up-my-own-design box. I’m ready to do just about anything analog within reason, from an expression pedal jack to a completely made up custom box.” Thanks Jason! Link and a lot of schematics here.
Found Photography has a great step by step on making a pinhole LEGO camera – “After making the Lego conversion of my old Polaroid 95a, I decided to tackle another Lego challenge: a medium format Pinhole Lego Camera. I had several goals for the lego camera: 1. First, I wanted to make sure that the film advance knob only turned one direction. 2. Secondly, I wanted to have a film counter in addition to the red window. 3. And last but not least, it would be nice to have some sort of viewfinder.” [via] Link.
Make pal Jason Striegel is looking for testers for his new app – PhotoPlug allows your Windows Mobile phone to display photo slide shows right on your home screen. It’s a very cool, must-have for Smartphone owners. If you own a working, unlocked 2002 or 2005 Smartphone, please contact me at inquiries at virtuoffice dot com. I need a couple of testers and in exchange I’ll send you a free copy of the latest version. Link.
NovySan sent in this list of winners from the designboom’s RE-think + RE-cycle contest earlier this year. There were 2418 designers from 82 different countries that participated. I could spend the entire day looking at these to get project ideas. The winner was a very nice watering add-on for a discarded water bottle. Link.
Interesting idea on how one could create a DIY, take anywhere drive in movie – In this digital day and age there are a lot of ways to enjoy movies. Computers, DVD players, portable video players and media centre computers are just some of the means through which your movie experience might come together, and consumer grade video projectors are getting better, cheaper and more portable by the day… Link.
This is a fantastic little kit that will let you design and construct your very own Automata. You get to explore the world of cams, shafts, and other simple mechanical linkages – something that hackers and builders today could very well benefit from! [