Artist Jamie Kuli McIntosh created this amazing ballgown from salvaged plastic and 225 mustard packets (those make up the corset). Read more about the process on her blog.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday March 31st, 2008 11:09 PM
Categories: Crafts, Green | No Comments
Remember those plastic bag animals we posted about? The artist (Joshua Allen Harris) put up some videos!
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday March 31st, 2008 11:07 PM
Categories: Art, Culture jamming, Green | 2 Comments
4 volumes of MAKE year three are combined in a special edition collector’s box. Includes: Volume 09, Volume 10, Volume 11, Volume 12 is on sale now. If you have volumes 9 through 12 you can just get the box, or you can make your own – 96mb zip (EPS).
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MAKE year one: Box set, box and DIY box.
MAKE the next year: Box set, box.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday March 31st, 2008 11:06 PM
Categories: Announcements, Maker Shed Store | 3 Comments
If you are looking for the best in portable cellphone technology, do not look here at Make. This cellphone, called the “Thunder Super Radio HiFi” features a 1.3 megapixel camera, 2.4 inch TFT display, built-in mini boombox, and even an microSD card slot. What looks like a normal phone on one side, morphs into a mega ghetto blaster on the back with all the speakers needed to start a house party. Sorry, this one’s not an April Fools joke.
Posted by jonahbc | Monday March 31st, 2008 8:57 PM
Categories: Cellphones, Mobile, Music | No Comments
This custom coil gun for V2 robosapiens is outstanding. The video was posted to youtube over a year ago, but I just noticed it now, so let’s all just sit back, enjoy, and pretend it’s super fresh. Mmmkay?
It looks like Marcus based his coil gun on the bic-pen and disposable camera capacitor design that’s been floating around. To that, he added a servo controlled auto-reload mechanism, complete with a LED “armed” indicator light. The final package, with laser sight, should terrorize pop cans and Teddy Ruxpin with a half-Joule of kinetic robo-chaos. The CoilOsapien site below has complete build instructions, in case you’d like to make your own.
Posted by jstriegel | Monday March 31st, 2008 8:24 PM
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This version of the Owl Project’s “iLog” plays glitchy electronica and noise while the sounds change based on the built in photocells in its base. Pretty cool aesthetics to the design of the body although this might be a hard thing to fit in your pocket as a portable music player.
Posted by jonahbc | Monday March 31st, 2008 8:18 PM
Categories: iPod, Music | No Comments
It pretty typical for Windows to take a minute or two to shutdown. Most of this wait is due to the OS being extra patient, waiting for all of your applications to safely close. So when an application hangs during shutdown, you are forced to twiddle your thumbs until Windows decides that enough time has elapsed to force-kill the application.
It turns out that most of these arbitrary timeout periods are configurable through the registry and Dennis O’Reilly has posted some easy tweaks that will force Windows to shut down a lot faster.
The registry keys in question are “HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/desktop/WaitToKillAppTimeout” and
“HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/desktop/HungAppTimeout“. The first controls the amount of time, in milliseconds, to wait before killing applications at shutdown, and the second is the amount of time to wait before killing a hung application.
There are some other registry adjustments that can be made which will automatically end running tasks and speed up killing hung services. Check the link below for the nitty gritty.
Posted by jstriegel | Monday March 31st, 2008 8:10 PM
Categories: hacks | No Comments
These are full-page scans from the 1930 DeMoulin Bros. & Co. Fraternal Supply Catalog, which illustrates tons of pranks to use on new recruits. Most are fantastically elaborate and would never work in today’s society. I think my favorite is the Electric Spiked Pathway or maybe the Moral Athletics. Take a look and post your favorite one in the comments.
Posted by Marc de Vinck | Monday March 31st, 2008 7:42 PM
Categories: Online | No Comments
Here is a simple, dangerous, and effective prank for your co-workers. Just be careful, you could definitely shoot your eye out with this prank. There is a full step-by-step at instructables on how to build your own Confetti Bomb.
Posted by Marc de Vinck | Monday March 31st, 2008 7:06 PM
Categories: DIY Projects, Instructables | No Comments
The phantom Keystroker would be fairly easy to spot plugged into your computer, but the results would be fun to watch. Maybe a remake is in order, especially if you can make it smaller, and easier to conceal.
The Phantom Keystroker may look like a harmless circuit board, but it’s actually a devious contraption of unlimited office-based torture. Simply discreetly attach the Phantom Keystroker to any extra USB port on your victim’s computer, no drivers needed. The Keystroker emulates a keyboard and mouse and periodically makes random mouse movements and types out odd garbage text and phrases.
More about the Phantom Keystroker
Posted by Marc de Vinck | Monday March 31st, 2008 5:12 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Toys and Games | 1 Comment
Exclusively in the Maker Shed, this updated Redpark Breakout Pack for Arduino and iOS makes interfacing your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with the real world easy! This bundle includes the new RedPark TTL Cable for iOS so a TTL adapter (and soldering) is no longer required.
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