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HTRN writes – “Using an entire basement or large room as the resonant box and multiples of large drivers (the article uses 12 15 inchers!) and a monster pro audio amp, it reproduces sounds so low and so loud, they’re felt rather than heard. After looking at this, I went looking for my Sawzall!” Link.
Moonbear3325 has some photos of the “Tape Canvas” he made – you use tapes from cassettes/8-track on a mat and play it by moving the head around – “The tape head has been extended via shielded cable. The “canvas” is made of strips of “8-track” tapes, removed from cartridge and pressed to sticky “foam core” […]
Remember the CVS Night vision camera project we posted about awhile back? Here’s another one, it’s awesome. Everett writes – “This is home-built night vision that was originally a CVS one-time-use video camera. I already have one that I hacked for repeated use and turned into an underwater camera, so this second one became night-vision.” […]
Derek writes in about his quick and dirty how-to on making ribbon controllers from S-VHS tape – “While often used in electronic music, you can use a ribbon controller wherever you’d use a potentiometer, with the caveat (at least with this design, which has no sample and hold) that you have to keep pressing down. […]
This USB photo watch can hold 26 (94 x 64 pixel resolution) photos and for $39 – it’s likely an excellent source of parts for projects. [via] Link.
Yorkie took a broken pair of Logitech bluetooth wireless iPod headphones and added a $3 socket for audio, he dremeled the ear pieces and wrapped them up – now he can connect the iPod to his stereo system wirelessly and use the iPod as remote control – he also uses it to play Yahoo subscription […]
This is way better than the boring CD/DVD storage books I’ve seen. Pgiambat on Instructables writes – “I got hold of an old hardback text book and converted it into a CD & DVD disc holder. I used a book, some double-sided tape, CD/DVD disc sleeves and a pair of scissors.” Link.
