Year: 2009

Continue time clock

Continue time clock

The artist (Sander Mulder) made 20 limited edition of these clocks and 1 artist proof… On this Continue Time clock, two out of the three pointers rotate around another pointer, instead of the central point on the clock face, as with traditional clocks. The resulting kinetic artwork, and functional clock, is continuously changing its shape […]

PianoDuino

This is an interesting musical interface called the PianoDuino. It uses the SoundCipher library for Processing and an Arduino to create interactive sound. Check out the web site for a little more information, and all the code needed to build your own. PianoDuino is a simple experiment that integrates Arduino, Processing and a library to […]

Building a mystery box

Building a mystery box

I love a good mystery. So does Wired Geekdad blogger and friend of MAKE, John Baichtal. In his words: A couple of months ago, I happened to catch the TED Talk given by Star Trek director J. J. Abrams concerning his love of mystery. The centerpiece of the talk was a simple cardboard box secured […]

Bizarre boats of yesteryear

Bizarre boats of yesteryear

Rex Research is a great site, chock-full of info about wacky inventions that never made it, including a bunch of free-energy quackery and pseudoscience that’s still a lot of fun if you take it with a grain of salt. One of my favorite pages so far is this collection of weird-ass boats that folks have […]