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Greener toilets, healthier lives
Worldchanging covered an important conference on an often-neglected concept: An international conference on Ecological Safety, held earlier this month in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, called attention to a dangerous sanitation issue by offering an inspiri...
Moldy but Good: Keyboard Performance Hacks
Watch Moldover deconstruct a toylike keyboard and reassemble it as an innovative musical performance controller.
Laughing Squid features Roboexotica 2008
Check out Scott's cool blog post.Link
Now on the Nintendo DS: OpenSoundControl
Big news from the homebrew Nintendo DS scene: OpenSoundControl is now supported, thanks to a community contribution from Tim Wood. That means you can drag your stylus around and send high-resolution data straight to software running on your comput...
Mousey the BeetleBot?
More robot fun from Mario Caicedo Langer. Here's an interesting take on my Mousey the Junkbot AND Jérôme Demer's BeetleBot. Mario built Jérôme's bot and then used a Mac mouse as a shell on top, turning it into a Mousebot, or a different kind o...
DIY non-explosive root beer
Dave sent us this tasty step-by-strep for homebrewing root beer -When I asked them about the yeast, the man behind the counter gave me a dreadful warning that making root beer with yeast is like making bombs. He said it was too dangerous as the...
The tones of ancient stones
Here's an lecture by acoustic archaeologist Paul Devereux detailing some of his research into the sound made by the rocks of ancient cave-dwellings. Interesting info - I wasn't aware of the sonic potential of "rock on rock" percussion. Read more...
Nautical bleep wheel
The Mucky Wheel electronic instrument turns out the blips, bleeps, and bloops with a satisfyingly sea-going motif. Design and construction photos available here. [via Synthtopia] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in M...
Welcome to CYBER MONDAY on MAKE
It's CYBER MONDAY MAKERS! So in that spirit we were able to do up a quick code/sale for all our robot kits for today. It starts at 12:01 am PST 12/1/2008 and ends today at 11:59 pm PST. Use code CYBERM at checkout at the Maker Shed. I'm also go...
Nifty junkbots from Colombia
By way of the Make: Flickr pool comes these awesome junkbot sculptures made by Mario Caicedo Langer from Bogotá, Colombia. Ecodiseño Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
All Fruity, No Loops: FL Studio to Remove All Melodic Samples; Murky License, Content
Deadmau5 roars, and FL drops all melodic content? Hey, whatever – FL users stay loyal to their app and it’s now BYO sample time. Photo (CC) iamdonte. The FL Studio community was rocked earlier this month as producer Deadmau5 claimed the use of his...
Synchronizing Firefly kit
Alex Weber, of Tinkerlog, who's brought us such wonderful projects as the programmable LED (featured in The Best of Instructables) and synchronizing fireflies, now offers kits for both of these projects in his new Tinkerstore. Synchronizing Fire...
USB Logger using a Vdrive2
I built a simple Data logger using a Vinculum Vdrive2. The logger records two sources of voltages within 0 to 5 volts. An 8 bit entry every second is recorded in a USB stick as a .csv file, suitable for use in Excel.When I first got my Vdrive2 mod...
Camel Dressage
Especially for our friends over on Spotty Horse News, here’s some amazing dressage work…on camel… via Stephen Bodio’s Querencia
Bicycle Buses
Here are 3 different designs for bicycle-powered buses: 1. The Buscycle (image via Ecofriend) 2. Eindhoven University's human-powered bus (also see our previous coverage): 3. The Velodisco: On one hand, these all look pretty inefficien...
Guitar Riggers: A Girl Plays Violin on Pogo Stick, A Man Dressed as Preset Cliches
Native Instruments’ Guitar Rig Hero video contest winners were unveiled today. At the top of the charts, players not surprisingly demonstrated fine craft, sharp execution, great playing, and so on. But let’s skip straight to the oddities in the bu...
REWARD for 100% chemical free material
This is a pretty interesting idea, taking the word chemical "back" as something good... or at least not "poisonous"... I agree! The Royal Society of Chemistry is today reclaiming the word chemical from the advertising and marketing industries. ...
Multi-tool font
Multi-tool... is a font via NOTCOT. Marcus writes - My neighbour forgot his multi function tool in our kitchen. I started playing around with it and (surprise, surprise) tried to create a whole alphabet with the sentence “typography can be a mu...
Wow! Bre Pettis' monochrom shout out
Oh my, we are all blushing!Monochrom is a Vienna-based artist collective. I consider them the most cutting edge contemporary artists. They are 1 part pop culture, 1 part technology, 1 part prankster and 1 part pure awesome.Art teachers often talk ...
Thingiverse: Digital Designs for Physical Objects
Awesome!Thingiverse is a place for you to share your digital designs with the world. We believe that just as computing shifted away from the mainframe into the personal computer that you use today, digital fabrication will share the same path. Inf...
Troody the walking dinosaur
Peter Dilworth of MIT's Leg Lab made this bipedal walking robot based on a Troodon dinosaur. His objective was straightforward: "It was for the robot to stand up from a sitting position, to walk and possibly run, go back to walking and stop and...
Macro Monday Insect Photos from Ben Cruachan Mountain in Australia
Duncan, in Victoria, Australia, writes the Ben Cruachan - natural history weblog, and posts some beautiful photos for Macro Monday.: “I put the moth light out last night, first time for a while, the weather just hasn’t been suitable and I’v...
N64 crammed into a Wii will not make you nostalgic
Although we're not really sure what the purpose of this mashup is, we like it's ghetto style. Someone crammed an N64 console into the body of a Nintendo Wii. For those of you who want to play N64 games on your Wii, you can avoid the destruction ...
Electro-junk sculpture for environmental awareness
Built by the British Royal Society of Arts to bring waste and recycling issues to the public eye - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment(aka WEEE) Man weighs in @ 3.3 metric tons - What is he made of? Firstly, large household appliances, s...
Mr Wizard's 400 Experiments in Science
Chris reviewed "The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments" as well as "Mr Wizard's 400 Experiments in Science", he writes - "Mr Wizards 400 Experiments in Science". (Reno: "Emilio Lizardo is a top scientist, dummkopf." Perfect Tommy: "So was Mr. ...
Breathing books
Bre visits Dam Stuhltrager gallery in Brooklyn to check out an exhibition of breathing books created by artist Edith Kollath. Each book's surreal movement is controlled via Lilypad Arduino, likely chosen for its thin easy-to-conceal profile whi...
Door drips into real space
This drippy door was spotted at the Hongik University, Jochiwon campus in Seoul, Korea. Nice way to integrate the physical space with the mental accident space of an art school. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts ...
Ammunition art
Al Farrow's ammunition art... Check out the complete gallery for some amazing works! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
Casio PT-100 thoroughly modded
Frostedminipete kicked his PT-100 keyboard up quite a several dozen notches by adding the following very effective circuit-bends - Starve pot [simulates dying batteries...low pitch, etc] Lead distortion pot Snare/hihat/bass distortion pot Bas...
Bird houses disguised as CCTV cameras
These birdhouses built into the shape of CCTV cameras were spotted at the Design Biennale in Saint Etienne, France. Pretty cool idea to deter criminal activity while also saving the wildlife. via Pasta and Vinegar Read more | Permalink | Comme...
Simple AVR robot
Here is another DIY robot project. It's a lot slower than the Cockroach bot I posted earlier, but it can potentially do a lot more. I really like the drink cap wheels. They will not provide a lot of traction, but at these speeds it isn't an issue...
Make an Arduino based tin can robot
This is a really cool robot made from an Arduino and a tin can. The best part about the project is a Father and his 3 & 6 year olds built it together. What a great way to spend the Thanksgiving weekend! This blog post will show you how to build ...
The Culture Jamming gift guide at MAKE - hack, stick, throw, jam and inspire!
Ok, folks, I know not all of you approve of culture jamming shenanigans, but here are some gift ideas for that mischief maker in your life! Peggy Kit Create a light board with your own picture! You can make an LED sign for your window, a geeky ...
How-to make a cockroach robot
This is a video I found while surfing around on YouTube. I think a lot of our readers would have most of the parts needed to make it. If not, you can pick them up for a few bucks. It's a cool little bot. Spotted on YouTube How-to make a cockroac...
Roboexotica 2008 // 10 Years Of Roboexotica!
Roböxotica 2008 -- and 10 YEARS OF ROBÖXOTICA!! -- will take place in Vienna from December 4 thru December 12.Roboexotica (or Roböxotica) is the first and inevitably leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics.Until recently, ...
"Kiki and Bubu and The Feelings" on YouTube
Kiki and Bubu like Christmas. But they hate the System. What can they do? They need some music!Link / YouTubeLink / Kiki and Bubu main page
monochrom's Taugshow #17
monochrom presents:++TAUGSHOW #17++Roboexotica SpecialFriday, Dec 5, 2008 / 8:00 PM @ Metalab, Vienna (presented by Johannes Grenzfurthner und Roland Gratzer)But who are our guests?----------------------------------------------/// MITCH ALTMANMitc...
Yabba Dabba DIY - Homemade Flintstones car
Photography courtesy of Bill LeMaster Bill LeMaster, a 44-year-old retired Air Force technician living in Montgomery, Ala., enjoys a great many hobbies, ranging from arts to electronics. He also enjoys his family, his most beloved passion. Altho...
MAKE Flickr pool super-roundup!
It's a been a while since we had our last roundup of projects from our Flickr photo pool, so here's a big ol' collection of recent highlights -3D printed business card holder LED concrete furniture ThingaMunny Goblinator Lyrics box for practice/...
Google Code University - tutorials and course content for CS students
Google's Code University is another great "bootstrap education" resource for CS students. I've written previously about other free resources for the self-guided software engineer, such as MIT's Open Courseware and Standford's Engineering Everywher...
Best of CRAFT
Here are some of my favorite posts from the CRAFT blog this week: Microscopic Photography Duct Tape Bows HOW TO - Gold Leaf River Rocks A.M. Eye Candy - Quilt Pin Art Cheetah Paper Craft HOW TO - Clove Necklace Read more | Pe...
Sparebots!
What do you do with all those extra resistors, capacitors outdated Ic's and dull red LEDs? Make SpareBots! Part sculpture, part recycling, SpareBots are a festive way to make figures, work with your hands and tell a story, like the SpareBot rod...
More Attaboy boxes for sale
We just finished making the second and final run of the boxes for Attaboy's hand painted collectable toy - 20 Qwezshuns. These are the final boxes, 14 thru 20 <!--break--> For the adorable lil' Qwezshun! Last year we had made boxes 1 thru 13...
NaKniSweMo VICTORY!
FINISHED! Her name is Rivulet. And like its owner, it’s got more going on in the back than the front. The buttons are recast pewter 1943 Australian Schilling buttons with ram’s heads on them. They are available here from The Ram’...
Glass bottle shelving
Here are some Instructables for variations on building shelves with glass bottles as the verticals: Bottle shelving with tension provided by a hook and bolt tightened between the shelves. A kitchen shelving unit version of their design. Check...
MAKE inspired honking pumpkin
I know Halloween is over, but I really wanted to share this project that Todd emailed us. The honking pumpkin was inspired by my How-to Tuesday: Scariest Pumpkin ever build. This is exactly why we do the builds for the blog. We want our readers t...
Set irritation phaser to: “stun”
I don’t know quite what it was about this article that irritated me and compelled me to respond, but I think it boils down to the devaluation of materials used for what is still, more or less, considered a hobby for women. No one writes arti...
monochrom's "Kiki and Bubu and The Feelings"
Kiki and Bubu like Christmas. But they hate the System. What can they do? They need some music!Link to Video Link Audio (last.fm, iTunes)
Meet up with us at AU 2008!
Meet up with us at AU 2008! Autodesk University is the big poo-bah get-together of all things Autodesk. We've been invited to give a few talks and classes, and we're super jazzed and excited about it. And not just because it's in the Venetian, a h...
Make your own Arduino controlled bell tower / carillon
Mechatronics writes -This is a set of musical bells which are driven by solenoids and controlled by an Arduino microcontroller.There are 8 bells covering one octave.The bells are controllable from a PC, or the tower can stand alone and play pre...