Month: January 2011

In the Maker Shed: Loud Objects Noise Toy kit

In the Maker Shed: Loud Objects Noise Toy kit

Bzzzzrrrreeeeepehkhkhkhhhhhhhk! Build your own Noise Toy with this kit from electronic noise group the Loud Objects. Plug in your headphones and glitch out, or jack into an amp and play it as an instrument. These kits come with a custom-printed circuit board, a noise generating microchip from their live performances, two buttons for modulating the […]

Pollution-Monitoring Fashion

Sam Dunne @ Core77 writes: Designers Nien Lam and Susan Ngo have collaborated to warn us of the risks of our pollution-heavy urban lifestyles on our bodily organs through fashion. In the presence of carbon monoxide, the “Warning Signs” wearables subtly change colour from a healthy pink to a slightly worrying grey.

Math Monday: Five tetrahedra

Math Monday: Five tetrahedra

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics Here is a geometric assembly challenge which you can try to make with wooden dowels or any other conveniently long cylinders. Each of these thirty aluminum rods touches ten others. The construction is rather tricky to accomplish even if you properly understand it as a compound of […]