“Sounds of Room” by Michel Dudek consists of several speakers and sensors in a space that echo the normal sounds of the building into a cacophonous chorus of daily activity in the space. Really interesting construction on this piece which looks like it’s part of an alien space craft. Sounds of Room Medianovercontrol via Bartholl
Excellent piece on KQED’s Quest on this most unusual boat, modelled after a water spider, by engineer Ugo Conti, and great footage of his boat in San Francisco Bay. I enjoyed Conti’s quotes: Because I get seasick, I suffer at sea. I think there has to be a better way. I want to fix that. […]
Fans of Lizzy House’s fun Lizzy Dish fabric patterns will love this fun and free quilt pattern download.
SparkFun has a nice roundup of various power supply protection plans. It’s a great place to start learning about how to protect your prototypes from inadvertent power supply mistakes. I think most of us can recall frying at least one chip from switching polarities. Got a good story? Share it with the rest of us […]
This is definitely one for the remake category. In fact, I think these have already been remade, right? I remember the LEGO Dulcimer and midi guitar, but I don’t remember a LEGO MP3 player? I think it would be a lot of fun to make a whole bunch of these types of products from old […]
Cheap Vegetable Gardener is having seed starting success with a grow box that uses cheap LED Christmas lights. It looks like a nice portable system, and they reported that the seedlings seem to be getting enough light so far. More: Plant growing LEDS
Jeff, he of the mightyOhm, asks: Have you ever wondered why standard 5% resistors have strange values, like 330 and 470 Ohms, instead of nice round numbers like 300 or 500 Ohms? It turns out that standard resistor values form a preferred number series defined by the EIA. 5% values are part of a standard […]
