How-To: 70s String Art
Meg at Decor it Yourself shows us how to make this vintage-inspired 70s style string art wall piece to bring a little math graph style into your home decor!
Year: 2010
Algorithmic synth uses swappable chips
Niklas Roy’s “Vektron modular” is a unigue approach to experimental synth hardware. The main device is essentially a control interface + display, capable of accepting a variety of digital chips as its core – The device plays compositions which are stored on microcontroller modules. The modules in this presentation are based on the Atmega family […]
Coffee Can Yarn Cubbies
I love these snazzy yarn cubbies from Lee Meredith. Better yet, they are recycled from coffee cans! See how she did it over on her blog.
Doubleplus clever dentist office flyer
Have I ever mentioned how much I love it when people post awesome stuff to the web with no background information? Like, just a picture with no annoying words about who took it or where or when? Yeah, that’s my favorite, as it enables me to commit timeless acts of journalism like this: “Somebody, somewhere, made this brilliant tearaway-teeth flyer for some lucky dentist, somewhere, and then somebody else from somewhere took a picture of it. You know, sometime.” [via Somebody-or-other]
In the Makers Market: Electronic component coaster set
Alan Parekh of Winnipeg makes these cool component-symbol coasters from 1/4″ plywood, sealed with polyurethane varnish. Ten dollars gets a set of six: resistor R1, inductor L2, LED D3, capacitor C4, transistor Q5, and ground GND. Good-looking, clever, and easy on the wallet.
Toolbox: SMT soldering tools
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange, or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your […]
Tan Le demos mind-controller on Marvin Minsky
In this video, Tan Le, president of Emotiv Systems, demos the company’s computer-controller that uses brainwaves, thoughts, to direct actions on a computer. Her test subject is renowned AI researcher Marvin Minsky. The real action starts at 10:35, and I have to admit, it was pretty thrilling to see Marvin rotate that cube with his […]