Scott J. Franklin’s handblown glass lamp with adjustable brightness, in water – “The WET Lamp is an elegant and playful series of glass lamps with an alluring water-submerged light bulb at its center. Putting an exposed light bulb in water certainly raises some eyebrows, but it also creates an intriguingly simple dimmer switch. When a […]
The secrets of making marionettes, from Popular Mechanics 1934 – Link.
Alan writes – “Here is a simple LED mirror ball project that can be completed in less that an hour and should not cost much money. My daughter is getting interested in electronics and she wanted to make something for her room.” – Link.
Tim Knowles attaches markers to trees and they draw as they move – “…Knowles attaches pens to the tips of branches of various trees; placing paper in front of them he allows the chance movement of the wind to dictate the composition of the final drawing. The artist surrenders final control of the work, questioning […]
Bryan writes – “Interfacing older, non VGA displays to systems with VGA hardware without the help of a hardware scan converter- Almost every linux embedded project out there today uses some form of LCD text or graphics display. CRTs have been abandoned as bulky and obsolete. But not all are. Forgotten are the tiny portable […]
Chris Jordan’s incredible gallery of stuff we throw out, pictured here, cellphones – [via] Link.
Make your own “Universal Software Radio Peripheral” – it can do things like…record every FM station, all at once “The UniversalSoftwareRadioPeripheral (USRP) is a low-cost, high speed implementation of GnuRadioHardware, developed by a team led by MattEttus. You can buy your own USRP(s); see [www.ettus.com]. The price for the motherboard is $550, and basic daughterboards […]
