Are your pencils nowhere to be found whenever you need one? When you look in your bag are all your pens scattered leaving a huge inky mess? Sounds like you need some (Jedi) order for your writing supplies! Make your own handy lightsaber pencil hol...
Tweets for Aug. 20, 200811:15 Memorizing this graph for the next time I go on a date: tinyurl.com/57lffn # 13:31 Dear Eco Designers: Please construct biodegradable plates that don't start to degrade as I'm eating off of them. # 13:35 Retweet from ...
It's been a while since I've played with the open source Festival TTS software, and I'm pretty impressed with the quality of the speech output. Some of the voices that are available sound so much better than the old diphone-based voices that evoke...
I Met The WalrusIn 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a ...
I don't really think of myself as a 'burning man fashion designer' although there is a way in which that does describe me. This wired blog mention and photo of medium reality (at the very end of the article) is pretty sweet regardless.Also check ...
Tweets for Aug. 19, 200811:26 Retweet from @rstevens: Yoda the 4-eared kitty! tinyurl.com/5nyxxp # 11:28 Mini Marvels sure are cute! www.marvel.com/news/comicstories.4590 # 11:34 @brubaker: Congrats for getting Sam Rami on board for Sleeper. Can'...
The Monome project, a USB MIDI and OpenSoundControl control surface for music and art, was built on open source principles, on its users making the product better as they used it. Its community has already built custom housings and elaborate soft...
As a web developer, I've been patiently waiting for the designer community to finally decide that rounded corners and drop shadows are out of style. I've been waiting since about 1999 so, uh, you know, any day now guys. I'll just be waiting here...
There’s a growing appetite for using custom controllers or creating DIY controllers from scratch. Why not, after all, get exactly the number of knobs and sliders you want, in just the layout you want? Where a lot of these projects stumble, t...
The music hacker is a different breed in a number of ways. It’s fairly safe, for instance, to say that the average Nintendo gamer does not consider the ability to patch modular synth parameters with their stylus a “killer app.” Y...
Tweets for Aug. 18, 200823:28 Halloween Costume Idea 1: Dead Big Foot in a Fridge. Date can wear Halloween Costume Idea 2: Indiana Jones in a Fridge. # 11:09 @laughingsquid: Thanks for blogging my Death Star Over San Francisco interview! tinyurl.c...
Hackszine pal Patti Schiendelman tipped me off to the Beagle Board, a spartan little embedded platform, perfect for all things hackable. It's based on the TI OMAP3 processor, which is packaged with 128MB of DDR RAM and 256MB of NAND Flash all on...
"You're a wee little Puppet Man!"(via "Angel" TV show)
Waveforms, pictured by altemark
Composer, musician, and sound designer W. Brent Latta knows something about sound design, currently working professionally on sound for games with Amaze Entertainment. As an enthusiast of what it takes to craft soun...
Chris Everest of Vinyl Project has some first hands-on impressions of Mixx, the open-source DJ software that recently added vinyl control (among other features). So far, he says he’s not sure it’s ready for prime-time: “There are...
Being expressive and productive creatively is all about finding a workflow that fits you. Form factor is part of that, because location matters. (I discovered this when trying unsuccessfully to operate my MacBook on a bus to Boston this week that ...
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