Dave Rocamora turned his old Ikea night table into a charging station for his gadgets, and made it an elegant lamp at the same time. He made a nice instructable about it, too, so with not much more than a router and utility knife, you can achieve the same look.
Brooklyn artist D. Billy makes impermanent onomatopoeia interventions to his surroundings, helping to bring comic book joy to our surroundings. He writes: Using colorful media such as twisting balloons, party streamers, and artist tape, I have begun to add visual representations of sound effects to public spaces as a sort of dimensional graffiti. After embellishing […]
If you’re in Chicago area, head on over to DEPART-ment this friday and weekend, July 18/19/20 at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park. They will be on the tennis courts on the east side of the park where over 100 vendors will be selling their wares and you can enjoy live music at the […]
This is an “eight step sequencer” that has additional volume and speed controls. It looks like there might be an Arduino in there, but I’m not sure. I wish there was more information on this project. A little more about the Vectrex Standalone Sound Sequencer
This project turns a vintage “Planet Lamp” into a parabolic microphone for recording and uses a CMoy, low power amplifier circuit for the microphone. The whole project runs runs from a 9 volt battery. Check out the link for circuit diagrams and instructions for this project. The Lamp – Parabolic Microphone
Younger sibling to the bC16 the new Chimera bC8 lacks the patchable banana jacks but has a whole some sweet sequencing features – A powerful DSP generates a VCO and LFO (similar to the bC16), also the DSP performs VCF and VCA functions as well controlling the patching of functions to each other and running […]
Derek and Lauren on design*sponge show you how to make a wood clock to adorn your home.
