Collaborate Disseminate
[Oliver Pett] loves creating automata; pieces of art whose physicality and motion come together to deliver something unique. [Oliver] also has a mission, and that mission is to complete the …read more Continue reading Love Complex Automata? Don’t Miss The Archer
Magnet placement tools are great because they remove finger fumbling while ensuring correct polarity every time. [EmGi] has made a further improvement by making a version that auto-feeds from an …read more Continue reading Auto-Reloading Magnet Dispenser Can Feed Itself
As anyone who’s made a thing knows, a lot of work goes into bringing something from idea to completion. But there’s also considerable satisfaction in the process. [Willian] recently did …read more Continue reading The Joy of Making Handheld Tetris From Scratch
[James]’ Mechanical Organ of Dutch origin has been around longer than he has, but thanks to being rebuilt over the years and lovingly cared for, it delivers its unique performances …read more Continue reading Inside a Dutch Street Organ: The Art of Mechanical Music-Making
Apple AirTags have speakers in them, and the speaker is not entirely under the owner’s control. [Shahram] shows how the speaker of an AirTag can be disabled while keeping the …read more Continue reading AirTag Has Hole Behind the Battery? It’s Likely Been Silenced
Are you in the mood for a retrocomputing deep dive into the Scriptovision Super Micro Script? It was a Canadian-made vintage video titler from the 80s, and [Cameron Kaiser] has …read more Continue reading Vintage Canadian Video Hardware Becomes Homebrew Computer
[Michigan Rocks] says he avoided making rock spheres for a long time on account of the time and cost he imagined was involved. Well, all that is in the past …read more Continue reading Rock Sphere Machine Produces Off the Charts Satisfaction
Cyberdecks are great projects, and [Salim Benbouziyane]’s scratch-built CM Deck is a fantastic specimen. It’s a clamshell-style cyberdeck with custom split keyboard, trackpad, optional external WiFi antenna, and some slick …read more Continue reading Custom Clamshell Cyberdeck Shows Off Underlighting
Water wells are simple things, but that doesn’t mean they are maintenance-free. It can be important to monitor water levels in a well, and that gets complicated when the well …read more Continue reading Making Effective, Affordable Water Level Monitors
[Teddy Warner]’s GPenT (Generative Pen-trained Transformer) project is a wall-mounted polargraph that makes plotter art, but there’s a whole lot more going on than one might think. This project was …read more Continue reading DIY Wall-Plotter Does Generative Art, But Not As We Know It