How-To: New Year’s Garland
I love this festive, bright felt garland from Molly’s Sketchbook at The Purl Bee. See how to make it in time for your New Year festivities.
Year: 2009
Amazing sound sculptures from motors & more
Zimoun‘s art makes use of motors and other machine hardware en masse to create some strange and quite elegant installations. [via EMSL]
Christmas Tree responds to Twitter mentions
Alpay Kasal’s Twitter-enabled “Twistmas” twee tree responds to specific keyword mentions by lighting corresponding ornaments – After designing a Twitter based installation for GE Healthcare, I looked forward to putting some Arduino’s and LED’s to work on a personal project. While speaking with Psytek, a founder of a hackerspace in Brooklyn called AlphaOneLabs, we decided […]
How (analog) traffic lights work
MAKE subscriber Joe Kerman sent us a link to this video about how mechanical controllers for traffic lights work. This is from a Canadian kid’s TV show from the late 80s (I think), called the Acme School of Stuff. I watched a number of other episodes on YouTube and found them pretty engaging and educational. […]
Happy birthday, Linus!
Today is the birthday of Linus Torvalds. Linus is the creator of Linux, the free software kernel that helped make the open source software revolution happen.
How-To: Bass drum microphone shock mount
Instructables user brainparts built this acoustically-isolated microphone mounting ring for his kick drum using bungee cords and a short slice of 6″ aluminum pipe, all for about $20. He says if he were to do it again, he’d just use PVC pipe for the ring.
Ultra-Super-Cute Embroidered Mouse Clothing
This winter mouse is perhaps the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. I love the colors, I love the expression, I love the details. The mouse is needlefelted, and the clothes are handmade and hand embroidered by Barby, on the Felting Forum.
