Dan Morril made a cigar box guitar by following the instructions in MAKE Volume 21. It looks great! I like the way he put one of the tuners on the top of the headstock instead of the side. I might give that a try on one of my future builds. Dan also posted detailed and […]
One my students, Danny Geiger, has a Sorenson videophone for communicating using sign language, and it’s designed to sit on top of your TV. The problem is that it doesn’t work work well with flat screens, so he made a laser-cut stand to support it. He provides the Illustrator file to make your own, which […]
Finnish photographer Ollipekka Kangas tapes pinhole cameras to trees and sign poles for months at a time, accumulating some pretty crazy imagery. Basically solarigraphic camera is a pinhole camera, very slow one. These pinhole photographs taken with a lensless pinhole camera with a extra long exposure. I use black&white paper which is 5-10 ASA. Exposure […]
To manage multiple colors of tape for a children’s craft area at the St. Paul Irish fair, Instructables user groenert designed this 3-roll masking tape dispenser.
A scarf to aid your search for terrestrial intelligence @ Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories The Arecibo Message, one of the most famous messages transmitted as part of SETI, loosely translated, says: “Hi! We’re intelligent! We’re made of meat! Here’s where we live!” Binary designs like the Arecibo message are popular with knitters and cross-stitchers since […]
Solarbotics has posted some video from its vault, portions of the 1995 BEAM Games, with BEAM inventor Mark Tilden talking about his VBug 1.5 (built from little more than a couple of Sony Walkmans and an Oven Timer Unit). I bought a BEAM VHS tape back then (I think of this event), which included this […]
Follow up to our 12/2009 post! The open source restaurant – The Instructables restaurant. We love everything about this… Springwise writes – Back in 2008 we wrote about Arne Hendriks’s plan to create a crowdsourced restaurant in Amsterdam. As of December, the resulting eatery–called by its founders “the world’s first open source restaurant”–has now opened. […]
