Musician Jeff Mills’ latest release is a hybrid CD + 5″ vinyl record on the same hunk of matter. I’d love to see a video of it in action or at least a view from the side so that I may begin to guess what it must be like to use it!
Via Dinosaurs and Robots come these amazing pictures of a derelict machine shop in the mountains of North Carolina. “No one on the mountain can remember it being open” says the Mondo-Blogo author who snapped the pics. It looked like, one day possibly in the 1960s or 70s, that they just up and closed without […]
When I first saw Chris’s gorgeous brass-and-wood irising door peephole mechanism in the ShopBot booth at Maker Faire, I knew it was something special: A beautiful piece of machinery, designed and built solely for the pleasure of operating and observing its operation. When Chris contacted us wanting to sell them in the Makers Market, naturally I was excited, but I was also a bit skeptical. I couldn’t imagine that such a large, relatively complex machine of solid brass and wood could be manufactured and sold at anything like a reasonable price point. But the $285 Chris is now asking, while certainly not cheap, is about 40% of what I was expecting to see when I clicked on his listing. I will be surprised if he can afford to continue selling them at that price. Which is why I already bought mine.
Round-up of top 10 exotic gear pr0n posts from the archives of Make: Online.
The Lost Knowledge column explores the possible technology of the future in the forgotten ideas of the past (and those just slightly off to the side). We look at retro-tech, “lost” technology, and the make-do, improvised “street tech” of village artisans and tradespeople from around the globe. “Lost Knowledge” was also the theme of MAKE […]
Finally a use for plastic blister pack packaging – pinball machine repair!
It was a wooden box with the bellows and lens from a folding camera mounted at one end with a complete darkroom inside. Using photographic printing paper the photographer would expose a sheet of paper for the negative, develop, stop, and fix it inside the camera, then put a copy stand on the camera and photograph the negative (to obtain a positive), develop, stop, and fix, then wash the final print in a coffee can of water attached to his homemade tripod.
