MIDI-controlled circuit bent telephone modem
Highly liquid points to this awesome MIDI-controlled circuit bent telephone modem – what a great use for an old modem, there are millions of them just getting tossed… laboratory fermicirrus – [via] Link.
Month: February 2007
HOW TO – Make bacon soap
Nothing gets you clean like good ole’ fashion bacon soap, Noah writes… Soap can be made from just about any kind of fat. Even though fat from bacon, called lard, isn’t the finest of fats to use for making soap, it somehow seemed to be the most exciting. Why? Because bacon is amazing. It has […]
The Origami Lab
Phil @ MAKE brings us a cool origami post: The New Yorker has a great article about Robert Lang, physicist turned origami pro (we’ve covered his work on MAKE a lot)… One of the few Americans to see action during the Bug Wars of the nineteen-nineties was Robert J. Lang, a lanky Californian who was […]
2GB chapstick
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Andrew has a clever USB enclosure, 2GB chapstick, he writes – I just bought a new 2GB USB flash drive, and it happened to be sitting on the desk the other day next to a tube of Chap Stick. It looked like a perfect match once I got the drive […]
CoilOsapien – Robosapien robot with a coil gun
Despite numerous warnings from science fiction authors and Hollywood movies regarding the weaponification of robots Robert has outfitted his Robosapien with a flame thrower and a coil gun – The coilgun is controlled using the V2’s remote and is able to fire 8 shots with it’s electronic reload. The charging time varies but is around […]
Tea Lights
Get in the mood for Valentine’s Day with Crafty Chica Kathy Cano Murillo’s Tempting Tea Lights project. Link.
Converting a Lawnmower IC engine to steam
Our steam powered pal Crab Fu sent in this site for converting IC (mower) engines to steam… Lynx steam engines has refined its focus to small scale 1-5 hp stationary steam engines utilizing monotube or flash power generators. Uni-flow, counter-flow, bash valve and diaphram engines are all in parallel development. Fuels such as bio-mass, wood […]