Meet CCRMA, a group of musical makers who stretch the sonic boundaries by turning personal computers into an electronic symphony. Based at Stanford University, CCRMA teams composers, artists and acoustical researchers together to meld music with new technology and explore the outer limits of audio from playground-activated sounds to laptop orchestras. Then see the origins […]
Continue ReadingJohn Park hacks a Wii controller and turns it into a personal flight recorder that can sense and measure the stomach-churning G forces of roller coasters and other high-speed, high-risk activities. Download the PDF for this project. Download the Personal Flight Recorder program for the Arduino. Get the m4v, subscribe in iTunes, watch on YouTube […]
Continue ReadingIn this Toolbox segment, William Gurstelle demonstrates the slick, back-cutting action of a super-sharp Japanese saw. Get the m4v, subscribe in iTunes, watch on YouTube or Blip.
Continue ReadingMake: television presents: Tesla coil guitar – Steve Connor plays his tesla coil guitar amplifier RFID implant – Amal Graafstra opens locks and other devices with his hand-implanted RFID tag. LED fan sign – Kip Kedersha lights up the baseball bleachers with his homemade sign. Solar-powered Gondola – Reno Tondelli takes us on a spin […]
Continue ReadingWe journey upstream with environmentalist Dan McCormick, a maker who crafts intricate watershed sculptures out of woven willow. In the Workshop, John Park shows how to build lively and inexpensive miniature robots. Mister Jalopy reveals the hidden treasures of his “Compact Childhood Museum.” The Maker Channel segment features French fries shot from a spud gun, […]
Continue ReadingJourney upstream with environmentalist Dan McCormick, a maker who crafts intricate watershed sculptures out of woven willow branches. Dan places his eco-art in gullies and riverbanks to help reduce erosion and filter out sediment and farm fertilizers that can clog streams and suffocate spawning salmon. And see other manmade structures built to help fish return […]
Continue ReadingJohn Park builds some lively and inexpensive miniature robots. Starting with a simple vibrabot made from a scrub brush, John assembles a solar junkbot and a slightly more complex beetlebot, which has paper clip ‘feelers’ attached to switches that allow it to respond to its environment. All it takes are a few common electronic components […]
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