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Fender Jazzmaster-Style Guitar, Built from Scratch

Laura Cochrane — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:40:24 +0000

This gorgeous homemade electric guitar, modeled after the Fender Jazzmaster, was made from a 2" slab of alder wood. From there, the maker planed, jigsawed, wired, sanded, sealed, primed, lacquered, buffed, and copper shielded their way to the finished pale green guitar, which is quite handsome. After going through the whole painstaking process, the maker comments at the end: "Whew.... I kind of want to build another.... Am I a sadist?"

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Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” Cover 3D-Printed

Gareth Branwyn — Fri, 31 May 2013 23:22:08 +0000

Anna Kaziunas France, of Global Fab Academy, prints out a 3D model of the iconic Joy Division album cover art for Unknown Pleasures. Did you know it's a radio waveform from the first pulsar ever discovered? And that it was lifted directly from an astronomy encyclopedia?

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“Being John Makervich” and Musical Chess at Maker Faire Seoul

Sabrina Merlo — Fri, 31 May 2013 16:50:58 +0000

Preview of great projects showing at this weekend's second annual Maker Faire Seoul.

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The Genie Lets Music Tech Out of the Bottle

Michael Colombo — Fri, 31 May 2013 14:22:33 +0000

The Genie is a guitarist who surrounds himself with a phalanx of tech that drops more grooves than a five piece band. Find out how he does it.

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Polyphonic Drum Machine

John Baichtal — Thu, 30 May 2013 20:35:51 +0000

Sebastian Tomczak’s DIY Polyphonic Drum Machine and Rhythm Looper is powered by a Teensy micrcontroller. I’ve made a simple drum machine / looper. It is for Teensy but it can be easily ported to Arduino. It has four sounds, a 16-subdivision pattern, variable sample rate and can playback all four […]

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David Neevel Riffs on Maker Faire

Stett Holbrook — Wed, 29 May 2013 00:47:57 +0000

If you missed David Neevel at Maker Faire, you missed out. David, who created one of the funniest videos of 2013, showed off his "email guitar" at Maker Faire. The notes he plays on his flying V guitar type out words on an attached computer. Read (and listen) about it here.

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Playing A Human Theremin

Andrew Salomone — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:37:20 +0000

Graphic designer Lucy Sansom turned her sister into a human theremin and then made this video demonstrating how she is played!

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Animatronic Beaker Puppet Lip-Syncs to Tunes

John Baichtal — Tue, 21 May 2013 23:33:46 +0000

Instructables user vigothecarpathian adapted a holiday decoration to create a fully functional Beaker puppet that can be used as a traditional puppet but also moves his mouth along with the music when a music player is plugged into him. Beaker-bot, for me is both an excellent puppet for someone like […]

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ArcAttack’s Steve Ward Demos the Handheld Tesla Coil

Laura Cochrane — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:57:12 +0000

Today at Maker Faire, ArcAttack's Steve Ward showed me why he comes to Maker Faire: to make lightning!

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Maker Faire: Day One

Stett Holbrook — Sun, 19 May 2013 02:36:57 +0000

The first day of Maker Faire opened Saturday with an exuberant crowd of tinkerers, experimentalists, artists, hobbyists, and of course, makers.

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