Month: August 2006

DIY Urban Challenge Workshop

DIY Urban Challenge Workshop

If you’re in San Jose today – check this out “DIY Urban Challenge is a workshop in which participants “hack” the streets of San Jose, creating objects which interject themselves into the urban fabric, to stimulate new experiences of the city. During a two day workshop participants will traverse San Jose detailing points of intersection […]

HOW TO – Make a simple AM radio

HOW TO – Make a simple AM radio

Here’s how to make a fantastic (and simple) AM radio, Grendel – “I just finished making quite possibly the world’s most simple radio. I had read a few HOWTOs for constructing a crystal radio. Some links offered the basic formulas for figuring the specs needed for the coil if you wanted to tune various frequencies. […]

DIY Retro iPod

DIY Retro iPod

Brunurb writes – “A classic radio used as an iPod Portable Audio System. Hacked this classic radio so that it worked as an iPod boombox. It works with 4 batteries to power the amplifier giving high volume level, ideal for outdoor use. It can also work without batteries with a volume suitable for indoor listening. […]

Air acoustics

Air acoustics

The museum “Waalsdorp” in the Netherlands has a ton of amazing gear designed for military purposes from the 30’s, check out the listening equipment section – “From the first world war until the 30’s air acoustics played an important role in the air defence. Air vehicles carrying a weapon could not be located from the […]