The Bridechamber site offers a pretty sweet little collection of synthesizer PCBs and component kits. Including incarnations of the elusive Wogglebug, Yusynth, and a nice collection of chaos circuits from Ian Fritz. They’re also selling some hard-to-find components & hardware at good prices. – The Bridechamber More: Chaos theory schematic
If you’d like to revamp an old picture frame or flowerpot, just grab some buttons from your collection and some grout and follow Cathy and Steve’s instructions for making these unique home accessories.
Found in the MAKE Flickr Pool: user In dust we trust made this earring from a vintage subminiature vacuum tube. This would go great with a hard drive needle tiara for steampunk accessorizing. UPDATE: turns out In dust we trust’s girlfriend, Darla, made these. Beautiful jewelry! More: Jewelry made from electronic parts Jewelry from Functional […]
Via Brass Goggles comes a pointer to a round-up of amazing antique diving suits and boats. Old Underwater Diving Suits
The “Solar Module” from electroKraft is a combination 8-bit synth and MIDI controller utilizing photocell sensor input. We’ve seen quite a few light-controlled analog synths but using that input to control MIDI results in some pretty interesting audio – (skip ahead to 1m50s to hear it in action)
Wheatgrass has lots of uses. The juice is good for you (and even tasty), and your cat just might love it. Instructables user itschrys has a tutorial up for growing your own, which is pretty easy when you have the right tools and supplies. I feel healthier even just looking at the pictures!
Developed by students at the University of Ulm in Germany, the Timbap DJing interface uses an acoustic timecode signal from a vinyl record to allow a user to select skip tracks, scratch and otherwise manipulate digital audio from the familiar turntablist perspective. But instead of being limited to one LP the user’s entire music library […]
