Ozan Sarıer is a composer, performer and a designer for musical instruments and interfaces. His latest creation is this Piyola, it is a USB device which was made from recycled parts. The keyboard plays a single octave, key presses are transferred to the computer using a found USB joystick.
Jeri Ellsworth who is well known for her C-One creation has been working on some crazy projects over at FatMan and Circuit Girl! Hack a Day featured the Floppy Disk Audio Recorder which is a thing of beauty. It can record about a 1/2 second on each track and uses the internal sensor to automatically move the head to the next track after every disk rotation. See that video
The guys at Stupid Inventions made an Automated Slinky Machine, yes it’s a pointless machine, but that is the point. 🙂 "Are you tired of not being able to use your Slinky Jr. because it’s too small to fall down the stairs? Well the folks at Stupid Inventions have come up with a way to use your Slinky Jr. without any stairs at all!"
Thanks to Mountain Dew Voltage for sponsoring the contest this week, they are having a contest themselves that you may want to check out. There will be two winners who will get a some Mountain Dew Voltage product and a Voltage T-shirt . This contest will run for one week (April 25 – 30, 2009) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured
I love these little remote controls, this is the same one that I used in the Atari 2600 TV Remote project. Sure with one of these devices you can take control of a TV but the problem is that you are standing there when you do it. With this Automatic Spy TV Remote you can hide the device and have it automatically drive people nuts. It will randomly turn
Metal working is a true art. TheWorkshop.ca has a good demonstration start to finish of a DIY Knife Making build. It shows that making a knife is much more than cutting out a shape and sharpening it. "The blade surface is hand sanded and polished with compound to remove the tinting that resulted from the "Tempering" step. I opted not to use any power tools for fear of building
Our mad scientist friend William Beaty demonstrates how you can make a very cold substance which acts like liquid nitrogen in your kitchen. With this creation you will be able to freeze and shatter flowers, grapes, leaves. Basically all of the demonstrations that we have seen done with liquid nitrogen in high school. The only item that you probably will have to leave the house for is some dry
