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The 8 Coolest Projects We Saw While Biking Across Europe

The 8 Coolest Projects We Saw While Biking Across Europe

Miriam and Madison saw a lot of cool projects while hopping from one European fab lab to the next. Here are 8 of the coolest.

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Before and After: Vintage Radio with Raspberry Pi

Before and After: Vintage Radio with Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi has truly opened up all kinds of possibilities in custom entertainment. One of the most fascinating possibilities lies in replacing the guts of a vintage radio or other media device and enhancing its abilities while keeping the aesthetics of yesterday. Gordon, who studied computer science and works in the semiconductor industry, decided […]

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Upcycle Glass Spheres into Unique Speaker Enclosures

Upcycle Glass Spheres into Unique Speaker Enclosures

If you were to create a speaker enclosure, conventional wisdom would have you starting with medium density fiberboard (MDF), or, possibly, some other wood product. Ryan Sweeney, however, decided instead to use a thick glass cylinder for each speaker, mounting them with cut bamboo. The idea for this came to him while he was working […]

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Retro-Mod Speakers Made from Ikea Salad Bowls

Retro-Mod Speakers Made from Ikea Salad Bowls

If you’ve ever lusted after those iconic B&W Nautilus speakers (which cost a staggering $60,000), you might be interested in this Ikea hacker’s homage to audio gear that no one can actually afford. Using Ikea salad bowls, Damir Paco of Denmark created these unique speakers. To build them, he used three different sizes of the […]

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3D Printable Death Star Shaped Speaker Enclosures

Rich Olson at nothinglabs has released a very cool parametric speaker enclosure on to Thingaverse. You can load up the page, set the right specifications for the driver of your choice, and print a Death Star shaped enclosure of your very own. These look absolutely fantastic, and according to Rich, sound fantastic if you find […]

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