Stylish and functional (might be fun to make a laptop version) Popular Science 1936 – To facilitate taking notes in the rain, a German newspaper reporter has equipped his raincoat with a window of transparent material. By holding his pencil and notebook in front of him, directly under the improvised window, he is able to […]
I love the “hacks” of classic Eames furniture on this Industrial Design student’s blog. There are only two items currently on the site. I hope they add more. Eames Hack – Link
Popular Science 1933 – WITH its deep, mellow notes, the electric organ is fast gaining the musical limelight. As a rule, these instruments are large and costly. Yet, for the price of a new hat, you can build a duplicate of a small organ that was featured in a recent coast-to-coast radio broadcast. Complete, the […]
Stylish and functional, a 1957 Huffy radio bike. I suppose a modern version would have an iPod… [via] Link. Related: Ultra-light/ultra-efficient pimped-out bike stereo system – Link. DIY Bike stereo – Link. i-Ride Bicycle stereo system – Link. From the pages of MAKE 11: Long Live the Bicycle by Saul Griffith in Making Trouble. Everything […]
Here’s a creepy cool DIY Sundial for your garden, Mechanix Illustrated 1949 Link.
Jake von Slatt, from the Steampunk Workshop, managed to make it to this year’s Yankee Steam Up event at the The New England Wireless and Steam Museum in Greenwich, RI, and has a tasty collection of pics and some short vids on his site. Yankee Steam Up 2007 – Link
Daniel Vera, of Helsinki’s Association Experimental Electronics, has a cool Flickr set and a number of YouTube vids (linked from Flickr) of rusty n’ dusty components of pinball and slot machines being resuscitate and turned into clacking circuit-bent sequencers. Sequencer – Link
