Visit SparkLab founder and designer Syuzi Pakhchyan, a maker who explores the new frontier of high tech and fashion with her space age handiwork. In the Workshop, John Park shows us how to build a guitar out of a piece of wood, some string, nails and a cigar box. Then he “makes it rock” by […]
Visit SparkLab founder and designer Syuzi Pakhchyan, a maker who explores the new frontier of high tech and fashion with her space age handiwork. Syuzi attaches LED’s and audio recording devices to clothing to craft unique sound and light wearables. Then see the very first maker of electric fashion. Learn more about Syuzi Pakhchyan at […]
With a piece of oak, some string and a cigar box, John Park creates a three-stringed guitar. The cigar box acts as the resonating soundboard for the instrument. John then wires the guitar to a buck-fifty cassette-player amp and makes it really rock. Check out the PDF for this project. Get the m4v, subscribe in […]
Check out the details for Cigar Box Guitar and learn how you can turn a piece of oak, some string, eyebolts, and an empty cigar box into a rocking 3-string guitar. Give this build a shot, and let us know how it turned out. We’d love to hear your feedback (or mad cigar box guitar-playing […]
In this Hidden Treasures segment, Mister Jalopy opens up his Chevy Camaro’s cassette player to show us the beauty and value of clear schematics for makers like him. Check out Mister Jalopy’s blog, Hoopty Rides. Get the m4v, subscribe in iTunes, watch on YouTube or Blip.
Make: television presents: Sunlight Poem – Ji Yeon Song’s one-day poem projector made of cardboard and sunlight. Pedal-Powered Blender – David Butcher outfits a bike with a generator that can run a blender. Handmade Theremin- Lorin Parker’s theremin works great and sounds even better. Time-lapse Camera – Jay Burlage hacks into a clock to create […]
To celebrate 60 days of web traffic on their site, open source kit makers Oomlout created a tangible graph using an acrylic base, hook-up wire, their automatic wire cutter, and some Arduino code. We’d like to think we had something to do with those long wires. 60 Day Anniversary More: Review: SERB Robot kit SERB […]
