Mammoth Modular Synthesizer At MIT Museum
Joe Paradiso has installed his homebuilt mammoth analog modular synthesizer in the MIT Museum and has completed a fairly epic patch which you can listen to (24 hours a day)
Technology
Animusic’s “Pipe Dream” Made Real
By now most of you have probably seen or heard some version of Animusic’s digitally animated musical concerts – specifically, their “Pipe Dream” video which has over 1.1 million views on YouTube. Well, Intel went ahead and made a real-world version of that concert!
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Last week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw… My First PCB from barnoid. Ferrofluid #3 from Mr. Bell. Repairing My Saw::Finished from Digitallizm. Complete dome view from hudson. [Untitled] from C.Filipowski. Glass Rain detail from Jenine Bressner. And the final batch works as well from .:madworm:..
“Look What You’ve Done to Me, MAKE Magazine!”
“Now I’m having trouble sleeping at night as I lie there thinking of all of the cool things I can build.”
Hard Drive POV Clock
Jason Hotchkiss made this amazingly geeky timepiece using persistence of vision and an old hard drive. All the code and schematics are available on Github and he’s diligently documented the process of making it on his blog, Stuff and Nonsense. If you like POV clocks as much as I do, be sure to check out […]
Octopus Soft-Robot Tentacle, Suckers!
Everyone loves a soft robot, and I’m fond of the marine variety. This bioinspired prototype tentacle, made of silicone rubber, not only curls and extends in eerily squidlike fashion, it’s also got pressure sensors embedded beneath its suckers so it can grasp objects, like a cephalopod should.
Edge-lit LED Nixie Tube Style Display
Made with ten layers of edge-lit acrylic, Jürgen Grau’s numeric display is a low-voltage facsimile of the old school Nixie Tube displays that so many of us are enamored with.