Bike Contraption Whistles with the Movement of the Tide
This art project at the San Francisco Exploratorium uses an old Huffy bike, a shipping container, and the tide to imitate Bosun’s whistle.
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Bass Cannon – The Portable Party
Adam’s Science Website puts it like this: Bass Cannon is a party on your shoulders. A weapon of mass destruction. A thing to make your neighbors angry. Bass Cannon is a mono audio system with a pair of x-pass filters, a powerful amplifier and suitable drivers. It’s composed of an AirZooka, a pair of voice […]
Sit Inside This Speaker for the Best Bass Possible
You want a speaker with totally insane bass? Why not build a speaker that you can sit inside for that totally visceral bass that you might encounter at an actual concert.
How-To: Guitar or Bass Headless Conversion
Learn how to take a guitar or bass with a broken headstock and flip it around. Build a headless guitar!
Talking Shop with Aron Sanchez of Buke and Gase
I was able to catch up with Aron Sanchez of the band Buke and Gase and talk about how he makes and modifies his instruments and pedals, his work with Blue Man Group, and much more.
Jamming on Lightwaves in this Weekend Project
Build an optical guitar using a common LM386 audio amp chip.
VioBass: Bass and Tom Tom Drum Mashup
Using a tom tom drum, an Icoustic bass, and violin, iCoustic founder Ken Preece has produced what looks to be a low-end banjo on steroids. The size and proximity of the tom tom brings out the depth of the bass as he plays it. Definitely a hip way to play upright bass.
