Reader Steve from Montreal sent along a great tutorial on how he built his own bike repair stand from spare parts in his garage. Steve is also to be commended because his first language is French and he wrote the following in English. Take it away Steve . . .
As you see, I made the stand with two triangles, a used old fork, two small clamps from the dollar store, a small metal rod and two ra...
Synthesist Paul Bower was browsing eBay looking at vintage steam engines one day, and decided to do something fun with it: he built a DIY steam-powered sequencer.
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Today’s guest post comes from Sarah of Frugal by Choice, Cheap by Necessity .
*warning, without giving anything away, if you normally receive a Christmas present from me, don’t attempt this at home…cause then you are a Grinch and will ruin Christmas for me.
Saturday Jack and I made homemade vanilla extract. It was extremely easy (start to finish it took 10 minutes), and I’m looking forward t...
In 1979, a book written by P.K. Sood called “Electronic Musical Projects” was published that contained plans and instructions for building all sorts of DIY electronic musical devices. It’s got plans for projects ...
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If you hate the quality of Apple's included iPhone headset but love the functionality of the remote, here's a quick hack to combine the remote with a better headset for quality sound on the cheap. Headphone hacker Yutaka Tsutano shows us what is a pretty easy hack, believe it or not. While you can potentially destroy two pairs of headphones, you're really just combining wires and you can easily...
It doesn't matter how old you are, glow sticks are always cool, and the science behind them is even cooler. DIY web site Instructables show us how to make our own. More »
What is a variable neutral density filter?
The neutral density bit means it is a filter simply designed to block some of the light getting into a camera. The variable bit means it is variable – you can control the darkness of the filter just by twisting one part of it. A proper variable neutral density filter can cost £100 or more!
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Handmade Music is a community get-together, Science Fair, noise-making happening, and party for people making things that make music. We return to NYC on Sunday, August 29 at 7p. Our new Manhattan home is Culturefix , a new electronics boutique, gallery, and tapas bar on the Lower East Side.
This month, we welcome a classically-trained guitar duo using their instruments to play games, an origi...
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Okay… these are a little old, but I’m just getting back on the ball with my feed reading and link sharing. I have plenty more coming, but I didn’t want to push them all out at once.
On a side note, we’re also going to get the Flickr Challenge going again. The current challenge is “environmental portraits” — you can read the announcement here and see the current entries in the pool . I’ll b...
Nice looking mirrors can do wonders for decorating and creating the illusion of space in small rooms, but they can also be expensive. Save some money by buying a pre-cut mirror and framing it yourself with some molding. More »
Granting us a view of our dystopian future, tinkerer Randy Sarafan combined engineering ingenuity and what looks like extreme depression to make "The Most Useful Machine," an automated channel surfing aid. One step closer to being completely immobile! More »
photo by Leo Herrera
Adrian & Mysterious D, a pair of San Francisco DJ’s, started a monthly “mashup” night at a small club in 2003. Then they moved to the DNA lounge , the current home of Bootie SF . Guest DJs spin their own mashups and live music performances are common. This is all out in the open. Only one mashup track from last year’s “best of” compilation was subject to a compla...
I am thrilled to be able to share this with you as the first item in my OpenSky Shop .
It’s a creative person’s dream wallpaper , Graham & Brown’s “Frames” by Artists
Taylor & Wood .
This is such a fun idea, and those of you who have followed HomeWorkshop.com for some time might remember I posted about this fabulous paper before. The empty frames design (below left) is cus...
Pinhole photos date back to the genesis of photography, but artist Pierre-Olivier Boulant is re-imagining them as digital media. Working with custom, hand-built control hardware and software patched in the free visual development environment Pure Data (Pd), he composes live performances from the photos, working with musicians to create a live soundscape. A chemical engineer by training, he left ...
Imagine a vast kingdom of rolling hills and rippling tides, cast in soothing shades of green, blue, and yellow. A kingdom that is soft and squishy. A kingdom in which the only doctrine is the Divine Right of Toes.
It took the help of 30 friends for Laurens van Wieringen to construct this magical place—a carpet that uses foam bars to create a sort of landscape raised in relief—but it was certainl...