Lorne’s Vintage Wireless Museum
Lorne writes – “Here are some pictures from my collection of vintage wireless sets, amplifiers, loudspeakers, test equipment, valves (tubes) and other items of interest…” – Link.
Retro
DIY Video game character mosaics
Houdini writes – “…Knowing nothing about how to do tiles mosaic and where to by the stuff, I started to do some searchs on google image to find an appropriate drawing to convert into mosaic. With a bit of luck I knew I could find one that will exactly fit my wills : not too […]
Clock tells time from any angle
Might be a neat (re)make – Link.
Mario soup – art from NES cartridges
Ben Fry dumped the ROMs of old NES cartridges and made these cool looking posters – “Any piece of executable code is also commingled with data, ranging from simple sentences of text for error messages to entire sets of graphics for the application. In older cartridge-based console games, the images for each of the small […]
The Monkey Arm – DIY Clamp tripod
Anko writes – “I truly detest carring around a tripod unless I know I’m going to need it. However, I do find myself needing an extra level of stability quite often. To solve the problem I threw together this, The Monkey Arm. The Monkey Arm consists of a length of Locline with a clamp epoxied […]
Put put boats
Csc934 writes – “The put put boat is a steam powered boat. In this use, they are hand made from either baking pan aluminum or flashing. The boiler is made by cutting and flattening a soda can, folding it, then epoxying in two straws.” [via] – Link.
Mark VIII keyboard
Russ is working on a really interesting keyboard, check out the different prototypes and build-blog – “This keyboard has no support at the base of the palm. It isn’t needed! The keyboard bears directly on the thumb. The main difference between this keyboard, and the others is that the thumb position is lowered. The thumb […]
