Made On Earth — LoCost Sports Car
Now midlife crises don’t have to be quite as expensive. Ron Champion’s cult classic, Build Your Own Sports Car for as Little as £250, has spawned a host of clubs devoted to doing just that.
Craft & Design
From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
Made On Earth — Flying Fruitcake
Back as far as 400 BC, catapults were used to hurl the vilest of projectiles: rocks, arrows, cow manure. But perhaps the most notorious missile of all may be … the fruitcake.
Made On Earth — Graffiti Temple
Artist David Best is known for his gigantic temple installations at Burning Man in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert; his latest was 115 feet tall, a quarter mile long, and visited by thousands.
Circuit-bent Atari 2600
Kyle writes – “A port of an Atari 2600 emulator to the Max/MSP/Jitter programming environment. This means that the Atari 2600 emulation parameters can be manipulated in a nearly infinite number of ways, producing Max/MSP/Jitter-based visuals with the 2600 aesthetic. Being within Jitter, the pixels generated from the Atari 2600 can be mapped to different types of surfaces, stretched, and zoomed. The audio output can be captured and manipulated by MSP as well.” Link.
Heirloom Technology — Jackhammer Headphones
And a discourse on blind men, chipmunks, whales, and the future.
HOW TO – Furious contact microphone assembly
Erinys writes “Here’s how to build a contact microphone. A step by step I put together years ago, but it is surprisingly still of use. Contact microphones may be used to record acoustic waves that propagate through media such as wood, sheet metal, or a block of ice. Doesn’t sound “pretty” in a classical sense, but if you’re into noise and field recordings, you’ll love what you can coax out of an old tin can with one of these attached.” Link.
Roll Your Own Ringtone
Wired article about making free ringtones – “Cell-phone customers have spent more than $4 billion on ringtones taken primarily from popular hits. Now MIT’s Media Lab hopes to unleash some new creativity into this market with a ringtone composition tool to the masses for free.” Link. Get the software here.
