Ever wanted to use sound vibrations to create a light show? These types of improvised sound and light projects are really fun to hack together and take little time and require about the same amount of skill. As they say in the description, “no electronics, accuracy, soldering, welding, nuclear reactions, or mining”, just cut and […]
Here’s a nice how-to on building a binary keyboard from an existing keyboard. The only thing they forgot to mention is how much time you’ll waste or pain you’ll endure trying to type an email with it. How to make a binary keyboard – [Link]
Bunnie posted up more in the “Made in China” videos/article series. It’s a really interesting view in to what actually goes in design, development and bringing a product to market when you go overseas, in this case the open source “Chumby” a Wi-Fi clock-like companion that does interactive applications… Link. More: Made in China: Automation […]
A ton of readers sent this in today, a photo essay and narration about the electronic markets in Shenzhen, China… Link & James Fallows’s related story in the July/August 2007 Atlantic – Link.
HomeRoasters.org, a community of avid (rabid?) home coffee roasters, is running the first-ever Roaster Building Competition. There are only a few days left in the contest (deadline is July 31st, midnight, Pacific time). The winning rig will be announced on August 15th. Submitted roasters are available for viewing on the association’s Discussion Forum. The Great […]
Here’s an excellent walk through about how a pinball machine is made! – The following is an unabridged version of a short presentation that Pat Lawlor Design did at Pinball Expo 2001, showing the history of the MONOPOLY Pinball project from start to end. MONOPOLY Pinball was a special project in a lot of ways, […]
This is the first part of what should be a great howto series on large scale mold making. We’re making an HPV! That’s human powered vehicle ;) We are required to have at least 1/3 of our frontal area covered by a fairing (a fairing is just an aerodynamic shell — like your car’s outer […]
