MAKE: television Presents:
Balloon Organ – Fran Hollands bagpipe-sounding musical balloon instrument.
Ball-Fetching Robot – Mark Whitneys autonomous dog-like robot that can follow and fetch a ball.
Truth Wristband – Sean Montgomerys wristband that uses technology similar to whats in lie detectors.
Submit a video of your own project at makerchannel.org.
Enter the plugged-in world of Tim Kaiser, a maker who creates experimental musical instruments from scavenged objects. Tim seeks out unique sounds everywhere he goes plucking chimes out of grandfather clocks and jingle mechanisms from childrens toys. And he doesnt stop there his electronic instruments have to look cool, too. So, Tim houses them in wildly inventive containers. Then meet the musical maverick who inspired him, Harry Partch.
Learn more about Tim Kaiser at http://www.timkaiser.org/.
Reuben Margolin, a Bay Area visionary and longtime maker, creates totally singular techno-kinetic wave sculptures. Using everything from wood to cardboard to found and salvaged objects, Reubens artwork is diverse, with sculptures ranging from tiny to looming, motorized to hand-cranked. Focusing on natural elements like a discrete water droplet or a powerful ocean eddy, his work is elegant and hypnotic. Also, learn how ocean waves can power our future. Learn more about Reuben at http://www.reubenmargolin.com/
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
Big news in the world of Open Source Hardware! Two Open Source Hardware makers were featured on Entrepreneur.com! These are well known innovators in the maker community, Bre Pettis and Limor Fried. It’s fantastic to see OSHW folks getting the spotlight, not only because they make great stuff but they’re also doing great business. I’d […]
A follow up to “Sony’s War on Makers, Hackers, and Innovators” which is now making the rounds around the web and getting some great comments/discussions on the article (join in here). I outlined seven examples of Sony punishing makers, hackers, and innovators, but saved the best one for its own post. Meet the 8th wonder […]
Photo by Boston photographer Erik Jacobs Congrats to MAKE video contributor Derek “Deek” Diedricksen for the piece about him and his micro-homes in this past Sunday’s New York Times. Really nice profile and slideshow of some of Deek’s projects. I like the characterization of his Tiny Yellow House show as “This Old House meets Wayne’s […]
