It’s the though that counts right, well if you get your special someone this gift for the holidays I am not sure you will be around to celebrate next years holiday season. 🙂 “Each bug is a real bug, with it’s carbon guts removed, and metal/silicon guts put in their place by artist Mike Libby. He “spent his youth developing a keen understanding of the material world looking under rocks,
Great use of a sponge and some guitar electronics! Reminds me of this project. “I made a “home made Drum” out of a guitar pickup and a string installed within a piece of sponge. I use Reaktor to translate the signal with its amplitube to snare drums. Each punch, with sound a snare drum (not the same snare all the time, it changes after every puch) and it has
I might have to have a look to see what power tools of mine can be converted into a racer. “It’s a rocket. Stuck through the back of a skull, sitting on an aging belt sander rigged to a pair of sawed-off skis. And it can haul butt down a track. Scott David and his 10-year-old son, Cal, built El Diablo del Muerte (“the Devil of Death”) for last
Play the video to check out the cool effects of the VGA Expropriator. There are lots more videos and pictures in the creators site. “Video synthesis tends to be dominated by digital technology these days however analogue video synthesis techniques can still offer a great many advantages in terms of aesthetics, performance, simplicity, and adaptability. Not to mention the non-linear surprises which can come from working in the analogue
How do you make a better mouse trap? Easy add some electronics to it and shake well… Check out the results. “A bait will be placed inside the trap with a hair trigger originally designed for Humpa the Robot (a story for another day), connected to the inputs of a PIC microcontroller board, which is in turn connected to a stepper motor controller. Both the pic board and motor controller
Driving your Roomba around using your phone is so last month… Today the cool way to do it is by tilting your Apple MacBook. I wonder what Todd will come up with next? “This project shows you how to use the built-in tilt sensors of the MacBook to control a Roomba. Since Perl hasn’t been used to program a Roomba yet, it seemed like a fun task to show
Doug Wilson has built a cool Altoids battery pack! Not sure what it is about the Altoids tins, but it seems that projects make great use out of them! This one seems to have all the bells and whistles. If you are looking for inspiration there are full build details on the site. “I have a 10 cell ‘AA’ NiMH battery pack (12V @ 1.6AH) that I use for backpacking.
