Archive for February, 2008
21-87 by Arther Lipsett
Monday, February 25th, 2008DIY Round Up No. 1
Monday, February 25th, 2008I like how this is sort of a green solution too:
Emergency Cellphone Charger – Watch the best video clips here
I’ve got an old scanner that I might try this with:
Recycled Scanner Hack! – video powered by Metacafe
Cool Tool Holder link
I’ll be making my own holder soon cause I’ve been needing a place for all my pliers and small screwdrivers, and I’ve got an extra small board.
It’s funny what you can find…
Thursday, February 21st, 2008I was puttsning (meaning generally not doing anything constructive, what of it I just made it up) around doing some geniology research just for kicks and in the fun that comes from following random links between pages and searching for something when you don’t know what it means I ended up at arXiv.org. It’s tag line slash description is “Open access to 464,654 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics.” It was founded in 1991 at Los Alamos National Laboratories and funded by the National Science Foundation, and was formed as a way for scientists to rapidly disseminate new discoveries and theoretical developments to the worldwide scientific community, nows its part of the Cornell University Library but it’s still a really cool resource. Funny though that I found this from a search that started with me looking for information about an engraver from the 1600′s, Cornelius Huyberts, who I assume is an ancestor of mine considering the rare nature of my family name. More on this soon, because I’ve become curious of this engraver, who’s dates I can’t find and very little work is documented online. I might have to do real research. I wish Google could actually find you what you were looking for always, oh well. That’s still what the library is for isn’t it?
Salvaging PCB Parts
Thursday, February 21st, 2008So I’ve been doing this for a while, ever since I discovered desoldering braid. I found this on Makezine, the Instructable isn’t anything special but the idea of reusing plastic bottles as transparent DIY containers is awesome (and cost saving). It’s funny, because this week I started collecting wide mouth plastic bottles for organizing larger electronic bits and art supples, I’m gonna screw their lids into a piece of wood and have a hanging organizer . I’ll have simple instructions up soon, once I’ve collected more bottles. I’ll put it up on Instructables, cause I never do and need to start actually
I Make Stuff From Plastic Bags
Thursday, February 21st, 2008and lots of other people do to. I’m beggining to document my thesis, as I’m doing it now and want to begin with were I first came across fusing plastic bags, which was here at Etsy labs, many thanks to
Later, I found this at treehugger, which is a great look at other artists using P.B.F., by the way that’s what I call it cause I love acronyms somebody probably thought of it first, I’m not saying I made it up, I don’t want the credit, I just like the name.
Also there’s this Instructable which isn’t bad, theres others but this one I saw first.
For those who don’t know, but I assume if your reading this you know me, but really I don’t know, who knows other people might end up reading this. I’ve been working with P.B.F. for about six months now and have and will be making more bags, for shopping/purses, laptop sleeves, and small zippered bags of various sizes (ie pencil cases and makeup bags), as well as plastic bag fabric stretched like a canvas as an art object. For my thesis I’m exploring the sonic qualities of stretched P.B.F. by making large instillations, with the material stretched over a wooden structure. The user interacts by moving through the space, of which all the walls and floor will be miced with contact mics. More explanation will follow, along with pictures soon.
Great Graffic Design
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008So I was wandering the tubes and found the portfolio of Steven Woowat. He’s a graffic designer with an eye towards greener ideas, his stuff is amazing! This image is from a series called Taken for Granted, I think it’s pretty self explanatory.
This Blows (no longer)
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Look it’s all fudged up. Ok so I did get the embedded video working, and then when I published it, it when all sour again. This will be dealt with ASAP.
Well it’s working now, and all i did was re-paste the embed code from YouTube. Technology is so weird.
So I don’t suck so bad.
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Ok, well it only took me over a semester to figure out how to embed video on my blog. Please spare the snide remarks and sarcasm, I know I suck, but hooray! I finaly can do it! Without any further ado look at this. Its a video about the problems with E-Waste from Good magazine. It’s really quite beautiful and shows the disturbing truth of dealing with electronic waste.
PID Lie Detector
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008In PID, James had us make this cool lie detector, sadly the site it was from had only a video.
So because I like having diagrams organized and together I added the transistor info as well.
source site
I’ll have an image of my finished lie detector soon. Mine seams to function in an odd way so it’s more of a random noise maker, but i think it sounds cool, so that’s the way it’s gonna be.
COOL!
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Nick Evans project blueBook is an molding of the features of ebooks and traditional books, really facinating and has possibilities for re-making.
” I can count every star in the heavens above but have no heart I can’t fall in love…” If you use computers, and or make electronic music, or are a technophile in anyway you might find this interesting. It takes a look at electronics and the image of them in popular music.
Flat out awesome: Message tape