Weekend Project: Hard Drive Wind Chimes
Reuse a crashed hard drive or two for a set of wind chimes. Easy to make and sound great.
Computers & Mobile
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Weekend Project: New Life For Old Zip Drives
The good old Zip Drive introduced by Iomega in late 1994 served it’s purpose as a medium-capacity removable disk storage system until obsolescence kicked in as it was replaced by flash drives as well as rewritable CDs and DVDs. Here are a few things you can do to give new life to that outdated drive.
Weekend Project: Scanner Camera
Turn a scanner into a camera that takes some pretty wild photos. An easy way to have fun with an old scanner!
Weekend Project: Make a Sneaky USB Battery!
This Weekend Project is the USBattery from MAKE Magazine Volume 16. Conceal a flash drive in a AA battery!
Suspended Pen on an XY Plotter: The Drawing Machine
Harvey Moon’s Drawing Machine is is not just a controllable pen attached suspending it over a page, it’s a tool for making beautiful artwork. Taking its cues from computer data, the Drawing Machine can reproduce any digitized picture or photograph, and the programmer’s touch introduces noise in the system. The results are more akin to print-making in that every creation is unique with its own idiosyncrasies. Filmed at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. http://unanything.com/ http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/5436
Reproduction of Early Mechanical Computer: The Digi Comp II
The Digi Comp II is a replica of a binary mechanical computer that can perform basic mathematical functions. As shown by Windell Oskay at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, it uses billiard balls as its counters and performs calculations in real time as the balls make their transit down a ramp with specially places guides and levers.
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/
http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/5300
Machine Knitting a Cosby Sweater
Andrew Salomone uses a hacked knitting machine from the 80s to “print” digital images into knitted garments. At World Maker Faire New York 2011, Andrew demonstrates the knitting machine and shows off its creations including a sweater with Bill Cosby’s face.
http://andrewsalomone.com
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/09/machine_knitting_a_cosby_sweat.html
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