Gunfight Cross Stitch
PlaidCrafter on Cut Out + Keep made a nice gunfight-themed cross stitch that proclaims, “The first rule of a gunfight is to bring a gun.”
Month: September 2008
Interview with circuit bending originator Reed Ghazala
Gearwire sits down for a talk with Mr. Qubais Reed Ghazala, widely regarded as the father of circuit-bending. Ghazala speaks at length as to the origins and popularity of bending’s most iconic project – the modified Texas Instruments Speak & Spell, aka the Incantor.
Cellular automata for sound control
The Automaton plugin from Audio Damage uses the rules of cellular automata for sequence and manipulation of audio. It’s AU/VST format compatible and comes with four built-in effects, each with independently customizable behavior. Life simulating algorithms are being used for generative music more and more lately, and for good reason. These techniques can add evolving […]
Street-pipe seat-mod
Posterchild’s seating caps make urban environments a bit more people-friendly These pipes- as pokey, uncomfortable, and rough as they are- have long ago been reimagined as benches, repurposed as public seating on a street that has none. I just made them more comfy! Seen above is one of five installed in Toronto’s Chinatown. – Seating […]
Crafternoon at AS220 in Providence, RI this Saturday, Sept 27
If you are in the Providence, RI area, Crafternoon is happening this Saturday, September 27th at AS220 at 1pm. (Photo Credit: Photographic Memory) About Crafternoon Crafternoon is a monthly happening where friends and strangers gather and work on their own projects in each others’ company. Our hope is that by leaving our studios and homes, […]
HOW TO – sliding pants rack
Instructables user phantazn writes: I bought a wardrobe from ikea to store my work clothes in. While walking around at ikea, I came across a Pax wardrobe with a Komplement pants hanger on rails. Unfortunately, they did not make them in the size for the cheapo Kullen wardrobe I bought, and I sure as hell […]
PhoneGap – develop native iPhone applications in HTML/Javascript
PhoneGap is one of the best projects to come out of iPhoneDevCamp II. It seems absolutely perfect for web developers who haven’t yet gotten comfortable with writing iPhone applications in Objective-C: PhoneGap is a free open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the iPhone […]