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Nice MAKE! – “Stretching out to the corners of the gymnasium, the indoor roller coaster at Royal Oak Intermediate School appears gargantuan compared to its creators. Twenty-four feet tall at its highest point and occupying 10,000 square feet, the fully-functional ride towers over the 135 eighth-graders who are its designers, builders and decorators. Students and […]
Greg writes “I have been playing around lately with an old disposable camera that I found lying around in my room. It was an ancient Kodak camera, but it had a flash, so I tore the thing apart. I noted how flimsy the case for the disposable camera was, and how hard it was to […]
MAKE pal Roger Ibars is selling the first Sony alarm clock controlled by Nintendo light gun… ” The idea of the Hard-wired devices is simple: I re-manufacture existing electronic devices by upgrading their interfaces with better ones (or strange ones too). Think about it, there are lots of poorly designed interfaces for products (hey, don’t […]
Shawn Bonkowski sent in these wonderful photos and write up from the Floor It! project that he developed with Mike Albers – Link. Idea/Problem/Context The idea was to create a compelling competitive experience for boys 7-10 years old. We were interested in creating a bridge between physical and virtual play. The solution needed to be […]
PalmInfocenter member twrock has posted images and details about his external headset mod for the Palm TX. He added a smaller 2.5 mm headphone/mic port to his TX in an external adapter that connects to the athena hotsync port. He intends to use it for voice recording and for future Palm OS VoIP applications. Link.
MAKE friend Jake von Slatt pointed us to this fascinating tutorial on hand spinning dog hair into skeins of yarn! From the site, “Chiengora (pronounced she-an-gora) is the name people are using for dog hair. Chien is French for dog and gora is from angora, the fiber the hair most closely resembles. Dog hair is […]
I think GetLoFi just identified the next trend in electronic music – “From what I hear “Circuit Blasting” is a new technique of blasting devices with extreme voltages using Victorian style science devices and it is something that Mark Pilkington will be dabbling into at 3pm this Sunday 19 March 2006, at the Camden Arts […]
