Cthulhu Amigurumi
Flickr user Here Be Dragons made a Cthulu amigurumi and posted a picture of him posing in California. Apparently a Cthulu is a creature from H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulu Mythos. via GeekCrafts.
Month: July 2008
HOW TO – Rustic Nectarine Tart
Shutterbean was making dinner, got sidetracked and ended up winging a rustic nectarine tart recipe. The pictures look great and she shared the recipe for the improvised dessert.
Most powerful subwoofer evars!?
A commenter from our previous humongous woofer post points out another contender for biggest-sub-ever – Enter(literally) the Matterhorn – The most powerful sub ever created. It was born out of a military request and is housed in a 20′ x 8′ x 8′ shipping container. 40 drivers, 40 kwatts of self powered and built in […]
HOPE article, interview on CNET
CNET posted a piece outlining what HOPE is all about and conducted a brief interview with the conference founder and 2600 publisher Emmanuel Goldstein – “Basically what the hackers and phone phreakers of the past were doing, everybody is doing today,” he said in an interview on Thursday. “This is the price of success; we […]
Obnoxious noise maker will scare your neighbors
This “obnoxious noise maker” called the “Ubnox-O-Phone” by its maker is a combination of a sound generator and Ruby Guitar Amp who’s schematic can be downloaded from their site. The whole project only cost $35 so it’s a pretty cheap way to annoy people. Check out the video at the link below. The Ubnox-O-Phone!!!
Neural network sculpture made from sticks and fishing weights
The “Rechnender Raum / Calculating Space” is a light-weight kinetic sculpture by Ralf Baecker that is constructed from sticks, strings, and fishing weights. The sculpture also functions a fully functional neural network. Really impressive piece and the video at the link below is pretty amazing to see it in action. Also, the piece will be […]
Add pitch bends to your old walkman
Here’s a nice how-to on pitch bending a standard cassette walkman. This hack uses a photocell as a tripper pot on the device. Check out the link for instructions on how to put this together. Primer: Pitch-Bending a Walkman