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Jim Stogdill sent this to the O’Reilly Radar mailing list: I caught this on 60 Minutes the other night and it struck me as the ultimate MAKE challenge. Guy designs his own RF therapy and machine to try to battle his leukemia. He didn’t win, but looks like the tech holds real promise and is […]
The UK-based electronic instrument maker known simply as the Sonic Manipulator demonstrates some of his unusual audio devices for the fine people of Earth – The Claude-a-tron – sort of a throttle-synth that seems surprisingly playable, with “pitch & volume, with oscillator modulation, bass & percussion control” … and the Rap Rod, a push/pull controlled […]
The Engadget Show takes a trip out to Madison, WI to visit the workbench of console-modder extraordinaire (and Make contributor) Mr. Ben Heck. Can’t wait to see the finished Paxton pinball!
Josh Ellingson shows off his vivid homage to Carl Sagan (and the similarity to the color palette of Laughing Squid stickers), inspired by the killer viral video ‘A Glorious Dawn’ ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed) Artist and publisher Attaboy with his bible of lowbrow art and culture, Hi-Fructose Magazine MAKE pal and “Lady Cartoonist” Meredith […]
Josh Klein developed a machine that trains crows to trade coins for peanuts. Literally, for peanuts. So you fill this thing with peanuts and set it out, say, in a public park, and the crows will scour the ground for loose change, carry it to the machine, and drop it in a slot in exchange for food. The project, dubbed “CrowBox,” made a big splash when he unveiled it back in 2007. Now he’s made the complete plans for the CrowBox completely available online so you can roll your own. And there’s no reason you couldn’t train your fly-monkeys-fly to gather other crow-portable objects. Twenty-dollar bills? Keys? iPods? Human eyes? The possibilities are endless. Set one up at the beach! Train seagulls to trade whole wallets for pre-shucked oysters!
UT Austin student/librarian/artist Keef calls this project “Professor Teeth.” It incorporates a dental mannequin with the jaws fixed up to chatter like that thing from Hellraiser that chatters? I think it’s called “The Chatterer?” Also it tells fortunes and stuff. There’s video here. [Thanks, Keef!]
