If you look around your office space you likely have an abundance of boring papers and sticky notes, but that doesn’t mean they need to stay that way. While the sticky note has some very industrial beginnings, it’s become a fun art material too… It was invented by 3M’s Art Fry using an adhesive developed […]
Instructables user btop writes: Gas bottle wood burners are very easy to make, efficient, and are perfect for late night parties. If you turn them right up, the middle can start to glow red, you can put a kettle on the top, or cut the top off and add a hot plate. These are really […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Unsatisfied with the limited catalogue of wordage offered by the household favorite Electronic Catch Phrase, Adam decided to make his own. Enter the expandable “Klugephrase” handheld game device – You turn it on, and it shows a list of categories. you pick a category, and it shows you a word […]
The Milwaukee servo electric guitar requires no fretting or even tuning – that work is left to a team of servo motors mounting prominently on the bridge area – A servoelectric guitar is a fretless guitar that is played by controlling servomotors that change the tension of the strings over an octave or more on […]
Last August, Marc wrote about Albert Hwang’s Wiremap display. It’s a 3D display technology which uses a standard projector to illuminate an array of vertical strings. The strings are carefully spaced so that a vertical row of pixels on the projector can illuminate a single string. This allows objects to be rendered in a three […]
On William J. Turkel’s Digital History Hacks site, he writes (back in Dec): In December 2004, I bought a copy of Joe Martin’s Tabletop Machining to see what would be involved in learning how to make clockwork mechanisms and automata. It was pretty obvious that I had many years of study ahead of me, but […]
This is new… google has a hardware based “Google PowerMeter prototype” with demo project… No hardware shots yet… The twittering power meter that Limor and I made uses the app engine, maybe they’ll add it. Anyone at google interested? http://www.ladyada.net/make/wattcher/index.html http://wattcher.appspot.com/history?user=adawattz@gmail.com http://wattcher.appspot.com/ http://twitter.com/tweetawatt
