Portable, loud, and fashionable. Take a vintage suitcase and install a set of speakers, passive crossovers, an amplifier, and a couple of rechargeable batteries. Now, you have a portable, albeit...
Posted by Patrick Gallagher | Monday May 13th, 2013 1:04 PM
Categories: Electronics | 11 Comments
In 2010, Natalie and her family made the 10 hour drive from San Diego the Maker Faire Bay Area. They were so excited by what they saw at the Faire...
Posted by Karen Tanenbaum | Friday May 10th, 2013 9:54 AM
Categories: Craft, Kids & Family, Makers, Robotics | No Comments
What happens when a few of the engineers at Lynx Laboratories decide to enter a statewide hackathan and make a real-time, interactive music visualizer with our device? Well, we pumped...
Posted by albertrondan | Thursday February 28th, 2013 12:00 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Electronics | 1 Comment
Ian Thacker's blog is called DIY family. True to the blog's name, it includes great projects from his talented wife and son, too. One of the projects that caught my...
Posted by Stett Holbrook | Friday February 22nd, 2013 9:26 AM
Categories: Electronics, Home, Kids & Family | No Comments
One of the best parts about the MaKey MaKey is that anyone can pick it up and use it right out of the box. But what happens when you put...
Posted by Michael Castor | Friday February 22nd, 2013 8:00 AM
Categories: Electronics, Art & Design | No Comments
This weekend I went down to Palo Alto to check out the DIY Musical Instrument Tailgate Party, hosted by Thingamajigs and the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics...
Posted by Gillian BenAry | Tuesday February 19th, 2013 11:52 AM
Categories: 3D Printing, Music | 4 Comments
Everything is getting all lovey dovey up in here with Valentine's Day happening this week. Topping my list of romantic-filled-moments is this swoon-worthy Valentine's Day video involving hot girls, heart...
Posted by Meg Allan Cole | Tuesday February 12th, 2013 3:00 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Music | 1 Comment
A wooden xylophone would be a fun addition to a covered spot in the backyard or front porch! Instructables user dirtydiaperchanger shares his build tutorial.
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Wednesday January 16th, 2013 2:50 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, Woodworking | No Comments
Morgan Hungerford and her team of creators, Nilay Lawson, Eric Loften, and Kate Green just put out issue 7 of the aesthetically-riveting Panda Head Magazine. The latest issue is their...
Posted by Meg Allan Cole | Tuesday December 4th, 2012 2:00 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Craft, Music | No Comments
Dodecaudion is a gesture-based, spatial interface that allows performers to create music by moving hands or other body parts around the 12-sided structure.
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Friday October 26th, 2012 4:29 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Music | No Comments
Who DOESN’T want to yell this message to every young lady out there. Well, the talent and brains behind Emotistyle, Molly Austin and Shamikah Martinez, provide the lecture for us in the...
Posted by Meg Allan Cole | Friday October 26th, 2012 3:00 PM
Iain Sharp built a single-board, open source modular synth packing some pretty cool features: The LushOne kit is designed to provide the core functions of a modular synthesizer in a...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday October 23rd, 2012 2:30 PM
Categories: Electronics, Music | No Comments
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