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Archive: Made in Japan
October 7, 2008
Made in Japan - 10/7/08
This week:
A Chindogu Master Shows Off His Inventions, Hand-Guided Spotlight, Decorating For Earthquake Safety, Tilt-Shifting in Quartz Composer, See My Dimple's Light Writing, Gainer Controlling a Virtual Airplane, Lullatone: Bringing DIY Instruments to the Kids, and Void Cube, The Rubik's Cube With No Center.
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Oct 7, 2008 08:00 PM
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September 29, 2008
Made in Japan - 9/29/08
This week:
A 31-port USB Hub "Mansion", Workshop Collection - Children's Video Playground, Very Miniature Parfaits, Interactive Textbook Graffiti, Nintendo DS Made to Look Like a VAIO, iPhone Icon Cookies, Silent Zoo Calendar, Haruo Suekichi: Steampunk Watch Maker Interview, A Jig for Making Things Look Huge.
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Sep 29, 2008 06:00 PM
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September 22, 2008
Made in Japan - 9/22/08
This week:
Hosobuchi Lamp Co. - Handmade Lightbulbs, Making a Handbag out of Cod, Tokyo Jogging, Bandai's Luminodot, Control a Radio Controlled Car With an iPod Touch via XBee, Stylophone w/ Modded Gakken SX-150, and the new Otona no Kagaku Electromagnet Engine.
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Sep 22, 2008 05:00 PM
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September 15, 2008
Made in Japan - Volume 32
This week:
The Himawari Prototype, Embroidery with a Regular Sewing Machine, TonchiDot's Sekai Camera, iphoneas, Tenori-Off, Plushie: An Interactive Design System for Plush Toys, squarewave surfers ~ memory of 8bit, Craftwife, Turning Chopsticks Into Hairpins - Using Cat Paws?, and the KikiMimi Audio Board Game.
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Sep 15, 2008 05:00 PM
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September 8, 2008
Made in Japan - Volume 31
This week's Made in Japan:
Mobile Camera Strap Lenses, Fukuda-Inspired ASCII Art, Recotana's USB MIDI Controller, The "Full Color" Print Gocco, 8-Line LED Kanji News Reader, Music With Crispbread and Credit Cards, Papercraft Made Easy with Fibercraft Paper, Controlling a Nokia 5110 LCD w/ the MAKE Controller, and a Falling Dot Clock w/ the Tera Clock Library.
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Sep 8, 2008 07:00 PM
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September 7, 2008
The art of wine - manga style
First there was "The Manga guide to statistics" and now Manga wine tasting (watch out Gary!)...
The art of wine - manga style via Robot Wisdom.
Kami No Shizuku – or The Drops Of God – has been wildly popular with manga fans since its creation in 2004, and is considered a bible for ordinary wine-lovers scared by stuffy wine magazines.Sales have topped a million copies in South Korea alone, with sales of wine shooting up by 30 per cent in response.
The ten-volume series sees two brothers given the challenge of locating 12 legendary wines when their father, a wine critic, dies suddenly.
Printed mostly in black and white and drawn to look like an ancient Japanese woodblock print, the secret of its success lies in the brilliant, sensual – and ever more outrageous – wine descriptions. 'Just like a classic rock concert!' says one brother after taking a sip of a 2001 Mont-Pérat.
'Like walking in a quiet forest being followed by two butterflies,' exclaims the other brother.
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Sep 7, 2008 06:09 PM
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September 1, 2008
Made in Japan - Volume 30
This week:
Kirigami by Kanako Yaguchi, The Web Server is Running, Controlling a Model Train with Acceleromoters, an iPod Touch and Gainer, Denkuri Master - Completed, Controlling the Gakken SX-150 with MIDI via USB, Making a Bug Trapped in Amber (Candy), High-Temp Superconductor Coaster, Rabbit-kun garbage bag + friends.
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Sep 1, 2008 03:00 PM
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August 25, 2008
Made in Japan - Volume 29
This week:
Todai LEGO Club, Infrared MIDI Accelerometer, "The Way Sensing Go" Installation by 4nchor5 La6, Trick Wall Paintings, Screen Painting, Visualizing the Length of the Large and Small Intestines, Snake-Like Disaster Camera, Summer Papercraft Mania, Stretchable Circuitry, Modding a Recorder to be 4 Meters Long.
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Aug 25, 2008 11:45 PM
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August 18, 2008
Made in Japan - Volume 28
This week:
Transformer Art Gallery, Making Characters from Individual Components, Asagaya's Tanabata Festival: The Papier-mache Float Parade, Make a Cheap Digital Camera More Holga-Like, The Welding Detective Manga, Making Bags out of Shotengai Flags.
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Aug 18, 2008 12:00 PM
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August 11, 2008
Made in Japan - Volume 27
This week:
The Gossamer 1 Art Machine, Making Tombodama, Digital Camera Goggles, The Reduino, Styrofoam Dome Homes, The Ferrofluid Sculptures of Sachiko Kodama, DIY 3-color Projections, iPhone from Beads, Mosquito Repellant iPhone App.
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Aug 11, 2008 12:00 PM
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August 4, 2008
Made in Japan - Volume 26
This week:
Clothespin Toys: IQlip = Descendant of Basamingar? Power Mac G3-style iPod Nano Cover, Scopedog Mecha, Original Gakken Bird Organ Compositions, Dorkbot Tokyo, The Effects of LED Eyes, Japanese Middle-Aged Men Fuel The Plastic Model Revival?
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Aug 4, 2008 12:00 PM
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July 29, 2008
Made in Japan - Volume 25
This week:
The Pocket Art Studio, The Portative Organ, Robot Fish, Eye Glasses: Always Keep Your Eyes Open, The Air-Conditioned Shirt, Automatic Dessert Making Machine, Otona no Kagaku Synth, USB-Powered CD Fan, Always Make the Shot - Wastebasket Three-Pointer Hack, Gakken Announces 8mm Movie Camera, and Bamboo-Copter Slow-Mo.
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Jul 29, 2008 06:00 AM
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July 21, 2008
Made in Japan - Volume 24
This week:
Time-lapse Video of Rice Paddy Art, Making Shocked Skeleton Photos,
Self-Standing Gyro Crawler, Creative+Ecological Packaging in Japan, Giant Newspaper Gag, Akibarduino - The Akihabara-centric Arduino-compatible, "Pimped" Fixed-gears in Japan, Papercraft Houses of the World - Asia Edition, and a Cheap Earbud Amplifier.
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Jul 21, 2008 08:00 PM
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July 15, 2008
Made in Japan - Volume 23
This week:
Making a Life-size Gummy Coke Bottle, Pentacom's Toy Camera Simulator, The Raygun Project, New iPhone Apps from Made in Japan Faves, Cut Your Own Hair - Cleanup's a Snap!, Smoking Sneaker Mods, What Happens if You Apply Electricity To..., The Sine Wave Orchestra.
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Jul 15, 2008 04:00 PM
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July 7, 2008
Made in Japan - Volume 22
This week:
Ginger - the AVR-Based Gainer Clone, Homemade Gut Strings from Sausage Casing, Biodegradable Balloon Making in Rural Japan, Okinawa Treehouse Restaurant, Crab Feet - Audio to Video and Back Again, iPod Touch Cycling Computer, Shikisai's Perception-Bending T-Shirts.
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Jul 7, 2008 07:48 PM
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June 30, 2008
Made in Japan - Volume 21
This week:
Ball joint doll heads, "Plastitch" Models, Vocaloid Meets Generative Composition, Human-made Spider Web, Rice Paddy Art in Yamagata, Kakuyo's Strap-on Fisheye Lenses for Cell Phones, Breadboarding on StapaVision, Carioka Labs' Low-Temp Stirling Engine Car, Making Spacey Movies Through Slo-Mo, and Three "Emo" Recycling Tools.
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Jun 30, 2008 08:03 PM
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June 23, 2008
Made in Japan - Volume 20
This week:
Cological Contraption Set, AeroSpider - Wall Walking RC Car, Meta-Ultraman: Ultraman Made Out of Smaller Ultramen, OLLO DIY Robot Kit, Clothespin Triceratops, Keromin, an Electronic Instrument that Looks Like a Frog, Zero Emission House, Microcontroller Boards 'R' Us: MicroFan, Fake Watches by Mint House, LED Grow Lights, and PingMag's RFID Aesthetics.
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Jun 23, 2008 01:20 PM
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June 16, 2008
Made in Japan - Volume 19
This week:
Ferris Wheel-Style Takoyaki Machine, Conductive Slime? - Sickly Dog Slime Game, Osaka Fire Dept.'s DIY'd Hydrogen Sulfide Removal Device, Kobe Aqua Robot Competition, Astro Boy Made from Train Tickets, Shuntaro Iizuka: Cardboard Character Costumes, Hair Pins: Yonuko, Hideto Hyodo - Acrylics Craftsman, Web-Controlled Kaleidoscope, and 70's Robot Glasses.
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Jun 16, 2008 11:00 AM
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June 2, 2008
Made in Japan - Volume 17
This week:
A Capacitor-Powered Fast-Charge Mini Car, Strawberry Skin Oshibana, LED Dome Light Hack, Robot Face Rapid Sequence Camera, Coming Soon? - Arduino Mini XBee Shield or Skinny-like 3.3v Arduino + XBee, Kumiko Latticework, Evolta Robot Climbs Grand Canyon Cliff, iPong, a Kappa Ring.
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Jun 2, 2008 10:24 AM
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May 26, 2008
Made in Japan - Volume 16
This week:
Miyazaki Modelers, the Wooden Supercar, Tatamet Folding Helmets, the Baby Elephant Copter, the MC Escher Stair Walking Jig, A DIY Underwater Fishing Camera, The Cycle Man Toilet Paper Holder, a Carved Kendama, Magnetic Motor Fish Microbot, The Mint House Makoto Eye Mask, The Mushroom Stool Cardboard Box, Hitachi's Hard Disk Crusher, and the Fotomo Street Corners Book.
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May 26, 2008 09:46 AM
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