Alt.CES: more repair-friendly gadgets, please!
Turned out that some of the switches had gone bad. I was thrilled to see a nice assortment of through-hole parts when I took it apart.
DIY Projects
The cakey spiral machine
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr members Lenny & Meriel posted this vid of their motorized cake decorating device – good times!
Wooden textiles
Check out Elisa Strozyk‘s awesome pixelated textiles made with castoff wooden veneering. The wooden textile intends to look at the new ways wood can be manipulated from its hard physical property to a fluid form when combined with fabric. Providing flexibility to wood allows us to connect with it in new ways. Utilizing wood veneers […]
Tabletop non-virtual Pong
The DIY mavens at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories made this tabletop playable Pong game and very thoroughly documented the build and functionality. What is PONG supposed to represent? Our answer to this question is a game somewhere between pinball and ping pong: Two players each have a single knob that controls the position of a […]
How-To: Make your own Lindsey Adelman chandelier
Brooklyn-based lighting designer Lindsey Adelman has published a great tutorial on the construction of this cool spidery brass light fixture from various commercial bits ‘n’ pieces. [via Readymade]
Electronic excuse generator has got you covered
Alex’s Emergency Excuse Generator (aka ‘EEG”) uses custom code fed with random input to determine word choice, resulting in convenient untruths so lifelike – you’ll swear it actually happened! … maybe the device uses the immense computational power and the 8K words program memory of a PIC16F690 microcontroller to demodulate an advanced lexico-semantical matrix and […]
Bill Gurstelle’s article on DIY in The Atlantic
MAKE contributor Bill Gurstelle has an awesome article in the latest issue of The Atlantic about DIY, Arduino and art: For a few dollars, creative and motivated individuals–rather than just corporations or institutions–can make highly intelligent tools, perfectly customized for a particular need. …large artistic installations used to require multiple programmers and engineers. But now […]