Make Music With Radioactivity
Axel Boman’s video highlights the Radioactive Orchestra, a project that assigns musical tones to reactive isotopes, making some seriously cool music along the way. [Thanks, Kristoffer!]
Month: August 2011
Live from Art Hack Weekend
I’m live at Eyebeam in NYC right now, for Art Hack Weekend, a weekend-long hackathon that’s a collaboration between The Creators Project and Eyebeam. Over 70 people have registered to form teams to work on hacker projects. Some came prepared to join a team, while many have simply paired up with fellow hackers whose projects they thought they could contribute skills towards.
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: Monster iPod Cozies, from Holly Keller Steampunk Robot, from Pennies From Heaven Designs QRandom, by Shannon Henry
How-To: Stuffed Berries
If it’s way too hot to turn on your oven, here’s a no-bake, super easy dessert for the weekend. Craftster member Batgirl shares her recipe for stuffed raspberries and strawberries. They look tasty! And they’re made with ready-made ingredients, so you don’t even have to mess up your kitchen. Much. More: Deep-Fried Strawberries How-To: Cake-Stuffed, […]
Stereo Panel Controls Bonkers Living Room Lighting Scheme
Here we have Arduino Forum contributor Marklar sharing his intense Arduino-based RGB LED home lighting scheme, which uses an old stereo front panel to control the different chase patterns within the crown moulding of his living room. The intensity and color of the lights can be manually controlled with the stereo’s rotary encoder to suit […]
Illustrated Feather Paper Garland
I really enjoyed this garland, featured on the HGTV Design Happens blog this morning, from Kaye Blegvad. I agree with the HGTV post, garland is definitely making a comeback, but I know I’m trying to find new items to feature and, overall, switch it up.
Support the Young World Inventors web series, get a bike-powered cell phone charger
There’s a quiet revolution going on in Africa, and it’s a bright one, eclipsing the usual “dark continent” story. It’s creative business with a global attitude, and it’s inspiring, for both Africans and Americans. With your help, we can post the first ten stories on a new website about young innovators inventing change in East Africa. Will you help build a community for African/American innovation? Help us edit ten webisodes this year.