Month: January 2007

Midi Concertina

Midi Concertina

Check out this midi concertina made with a pic microcontroller. I researched concertina building — but only for a couple of hours. It took just that long to see that such a project (valves, reeds, bellows…) is WAY beyond my ambition. Then in one of those “sychronicity” epiphanies, a lot of things at once suggested […]

Skateboards for schools!

Skateboards for schools!

H1Javier writes “Cool idea for enabling kids to actually make something usable in shop class: from the website: “The fact is, kids have always wanted to make skateboard decks in their woodshop classes but teachers and students never knew how to put the concave shapes and turned up nose and tail in the wood. Decks cut out of plywood and pine stock just don’t work! And where do you drill for correct wheel placement in order to get proper flex and balance? Well, Skateboardsforschools.com has taken care of all of that for you!” [via]. Link.