Brain Cupcakes
Mmmmmm… braaaiiinnsss. A cupcake fit for a zombie dinner party, by Pamela Frantz. It’s red velvet cake with vanilla cream cheese frosting and a chocolate brain (made from one of these molds). Via Street Anatomy.
Year: 2009
Getting Started with Arduino in the iPhone app store
The standalone iPhone app version of Getting Started with Arduino is available for purchase via iTunes or directly on your iPhone or iPod touch
Monty Monty’s modded instruments
Artist Monty Monty does a fine job of thinking way outside the box on his modded instruments. The piece pictured above is the Blues Bike, which obviously isn’t an instrument but uses repurposed instruments in its form. His actual instruments are beautiful hybrids of the most unexpected pairings, like the Electric Bass and Strings and the Bowling Ball Bass, both shown below.
Spying on the biggest iPod ever (Jalopy style)
With iPod rumor season upon us (videocams? microphones for VoIP calls!), it’s time to gaze back fondly on those quaint iPods of yestermonth. And the quaintest has got to be Mister Jalopy’s World’s Biggest iPod hack, as seen in MAKE, Volume 04. Who doesn’t love MJ’s fat little iPod (is that a 3rd Gen?) grafted […]
Program Arduino from a web browser with physical x wonderfl
Connect your microcontroller board to a computer, and run your sketch from inside the browser.
Designs to deal with the rising tides
The terrific blog Inhabitat has an intriguing article about the winning entries in the Rising Tides competition, wherein entrants came up with ways to deal with what could be a 55″ rise in the San Francisco Bay waters in the next century. From Inhabitat’s recap: Another mind-boggling solution to the high-water mark is Folding Water, […]
How-To: Recycled Wine Bottle Torch
This recycled wine bottle torch is so simple and elegant, and yet made entirely from stuff you can get at the hardware store. (Thanks, Katie Wilson!)