Weekend Project: Junk Parts Pecan Crusher
Check out an old-school pecan crusher made out of junk parts found in a man-cave.
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Awesome collection of DIY video-glitch hardware
The “tools” section of media artist Karl Klomp’s website documents an impressive amount of bent, hacked and homebrew hardware for video manipulation. Devices such as the Failter (seen above)series go through a number of incarnations while Karl experiments with different hardware and uncovers its glitch-ability. The retro-simple feel of the enclosures give give it all […]
“The joy of sex don’t last like the fun of shootin’ anvils”
To “shoot,” an anvil, for the record, is to blast it several hundred feet into the air using a charge of black powder. This delightful man, Gay Wilkinson, is apparently the world’s champion anvil-shooter. The fireworks start at 1:30. [via Boing Boing]
Put MAKE badges on your site!
Did you know that we have little MAKE badges you can put on your website? If we write about your project or site, you can use this badge to link back to your piece here on Make: Online: If you just like us a lot (we love you too!) and want to send us some […]
Man builds machine to treat his own leukemia
Jim Stogdill sent this to the O’Reilly Radar mailing list: I caught this on 60 Minutes the other night and it struck me as the ultimate MAKE challenge. Guy designs his own RF therapy and machine to try to battle his leukemia. He didn’t win, but looks like the tech holds real promise and is […]
Musical inventions of the Sonic Manipulator
The UK-based electronic instrument maker known simply as the Sonic Manipulator demonstrates some of his unusual audio devices for the fine people of Earth – The Claude-a-tron – sort of a throttle-synth that seems surprisingly playable, with “pitch & volume, with oscillator modulation, bass & percussion control” … and the Rap Rod, a push/pull controlled […]
A visit to Ben Heck’s lab
The Engadget Show takes a trip out to Madison, WI to visit the workbench of console-modder extraordinaire (and Make contributor) Mr. Ben Heck. Can’t wait to see the finished Paxton pinball!
