6 Ways to Transform a Bowl into a Sleek Speaker
Upcycled salad bowls and cereal bowls make surprisingly chic speaker “boxes” for the clever audiophile maker.
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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 […]
Inertial Control Orb for Desktop Spherical Display
I didn’t think Nirval Patel’s DIY desktop spherical display unit could get any better. I was wrong.
DIY Ice Sphere Maker
Gordon Vizecky of Minneapolis, MN, machined this ice sphere mold in his shop as his first lathe project. Gordon’s video shows all the steps he went through to grind out the hemispheres.
Pico Projector + Light Fixture + Free Code = Desktop Spherical Display
Sometimes, I get this feeling like I’ve seen it all – that nothing that comes along is ever going to inspire or delight me the same way that certain ideas, systems, inventions, and/or artworks did when I was younger. It always passes, sooner or later, but while I’m under that spell it can be…well, it can be a bit depressing, honestly. So I feel like I ought to thank International Man of Mystery Nirav Patel, somewhat more personally than usual, for making and sharing this wonderful thing. I am inspired.
MorpHex = Conventional Hexapod + 2
This is Norweigian Kåre Halvorsen’s MorpHex project. +1: MorpHex improves upon the traditional static hexapod body by the addition of a set of six radially-irising arms, each of which carries the top leg joint of one of the six legs. By expanding or contracting the iris, the diameter of MorpHex’s overall footprint can be dynamically […]
Panoramic video experiment
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Dr.photon is exploring the world DIY video panoramics – […] a parabolic mirror would be ideal. However, I had a christmas ornament on hand and the software function I was using to unwrap the image was based on a sphere (polar distortion). as it turned out my camera is […]
