Inventor, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil appeared on I’ve Got a Secret in 1965 when he was 17 years old. He made a computer that plays music, at the end of the video they show the computer – via Bruce Sterling.
Gorgeous teacup Stirling engine, spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool. From MAKE magazine: Check out MAKE, Volume 17: The Lost Knowledge issue! Buy your copy in the Maker Shed, Subscribe to MAKE, or Access the Digital Edition (if you’re already a subscriber). We have a teacup Stirling engine project in MAKE, Volume 17.
Jake has posted pics and info on Steampunk Workshop of another maker’s build of his Wimshurst machine, a project featured in MAKE, Volume 17. Jake writes: …This is a very elegant machine and some of Bruce’s innovations make it superior to my own! Here’s what the builder, Bruce, says about his version: These are some […]
Kiwi businessman Wayne Eyre dropped a pretty penny on this fantasy home theater build, but the results are impressive.
Here’s a very nice bit of video documenting the recent Steampunk exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford. Steampunk Art @ Oxford
Some years ago, a conversation with my old friend Billy Baque turned to the subject of adapting board games for sightless play. When it came round to Go, Billy mentioned having read of an antique Korean board, hollow inside and strung with wires along the lines of the grid, the wires being tuned such that each intersection produced a unique musical interval when a stone was placed upon it. Whether this was simply an aesthetic embellishment or a means to make the game more accessible to sightless players, he did not know.
The “Computopia” feature predicted that by 1989 our lives would be equal parts carefree and terrifying thanks to the pervasiveness of computers, telecommuting teachers, and pugilistic enforcer robots.
