Month: April 2006

Guitars from old motorcycle parts

Guitars from old motorcycle parts

Courtney writes – “Charlie O’hanolan is the Bay Area’s leading expert on pre-1980 Honda motorcycles. This is not to be confused with O’hanolin Motorcycles, which was sold to a third party by Charlie’s evil twin brother. Charlie hand-crafts guitars from old motorcycle parts.” – Link. Related: Made on Earth. Gas tank bass instrument. MAKE 03 […]

MythTV invades realm of cable and TiVo

MythTV invades realm of cable and TiVo

Washington Post has a good overview of MythTV – “In 2002, amidst a bulky, advertising-laden digital television experience, programmer Isaac Richards took matters into his own hands — he began to build his own digital video recorder system from scratch. Now known as the MythTV project (http://www.mythtv.com), Richards’s effort to create DVR systems from commonly […]

Washing soda developers for film

Washing soda developers for film

Justin writes – “Alternative processes have always been interesting to me, and I’ve wanted to try the following experiment for a long time (especially after seeing the recipes described on the Shutterbug web site and elsewhere online.) You probably already know that it’s cheap and easy to develop film in your own bathroom, but did […]