Robots have taken over! Knitted robots, that is. Jess Hutchison takes her love of knitting into realms of technology with these cute, cuddy and we think “friendly” robots. Perfect for pinics or just chillin’ on the sofa. Contact Jess if you want to purchase one or make one yourself. Link
Makers, everyone, welcome Natalie Zee to the MAKE blog! Natalie is an all around gadget geek and crafter. She will be posting here on the MAKE site as well as working on some fun projects with us, welcome Nat! Check out her personal site here, her Flickr photos and her del.icio.us links!
Gizmodo has a nice round up of what’s been shaking over at Treehugger, an excellent site devoted to Earth friendly things – indoor solar project, hand cranked iPod, power assist bikes and glass that can product electricity. And on that note, here’s the winner of the DIY Eco-tech Contest: the solar-powered hydrofoil sent in by Terrence Breitsameter and built by the Marquette Solar Energy Society. In addition to the solar backpack, MAKE is giving them a 2 year subscription to MAKE and our limited edition T-Shirt!
Wow, this BIG! The new iPods record in stereo! Voice recording settings: Low (22.05 KHz, mono) High (44.1 KHz, stereo). At least that’s what the spec page says. This is _great_ news for anyone who has wanted to use their iPod as a recorder, but didn’t like the idea of installing Podzilla, or recording at the crippled rate the older iPods are set at. Link.
Mike writes “I thought you’d like to learn about the new phenomenon of “camera tossing” started by Ryan Gallagher on Flickr. This is tossing cheap digital cameras into the air with shutter open to generate cool streaky time exposures of city lights at night. Here’s my moblog post about it with links. Someone has even tossed their Canon 10D! Link. The pictures are really neat looking.
Great site and custom bass pedals, Mike writes “Once I became disgusted with trying to find a great sounding distortion/fuzz pedal for bass guitar I decided that since i knew how to solder and basic circuitry I was going to build one instead. After many hours researching on internet sites and soldering away in my basement, I have come up with two pedals that I feel have a great vintage, yet over the top, tubey fuzz to them… without the loss of bass most distortion pedals give you. Then, much to my wife’s dismay, I began to build other pedals…” Thanks Star! Link.
Make pal Hans sent in this web-only analog computer museum. Analog computers have a long history dating back to prehistory, but with the recent development of the microprocessor these computers and their technology has been discarded and is quickly being lost to history. Their mission is to help preserve some of this technology and to provide a source of information for people that want to use this technology – Link.
