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Cardboard tube battle

My local library picked up on the festive trend of Cardboard Tube Fighting.

The Boston Globe covered the preparations:

The group discovered cardboard tube fighting last summer in time to incorporate a bit of it into a presentation on Greek mythology at a reading program party.

The weapons are cylindrical pieces of thick cardboard about 4 feet long. The appeal, explains young-adult librarian Ellen Snoeyenbos: โ€œItโ€™s totally ridiculous.โ€

As word of mock combat with reliably harmless weaponry spread among the townโ€™s youthful warriors, Snoeyenbos and the Bookmarks seized on the fund-raiser as a chance to exploit their discovery of the fighting fad made popular by YouTube.

Saturdayโ€™s event will feature one-on-one tournaments, guild-on-guild skirmishes (up to 10 fighters per team), โ€œand an all-out battle for possession of the Royal Crown,โ€ according to the club.

Dekatron tube sequencer

Cirtcele built a synth sequencer module using a dekatron vacuum tube display โ€“ The clock circuit includes a relay which clacks away somewhat charmingly. The relay noise does not get into the sound path of the synth, it is just the noise the synth makes whilst operating. Sound is recorded over the cameraโ€™s microphone so [โ€ฆ]

Toilet paper tube faces

Toilet paper tube faces

At last, something to do with that pile of toilet paper tubes youโ€™ve been saving all these years! (Thereโ€™s no point denying it; we know how you are.) Then again, youโ€™d be lucky to have the mad skillz of sculptor Junior Jacquet, whoโ€™s made a career out of sculpting cardboard. His toilet paper tube faces, [โ€ฆ]

Handmade radios as objets dโ€™art

Handmade radios as objets dโ€™art

Mister Jalopy hipped us to these amazing handmade radios from Tom Kipgen. The triangular wonder above is called Radio Moscow (โ€™cause the finned brass plate cap Tom fabbed reminded him of Russian onion domes). As Mister J points out, for something this beautifully crafted, the asking price is a song. Wander the site for other [โ€ฆ]