Homebrew monome is not your average instrument
This homebrew version of the popular Monome is called “upside down and backwards” by its maker, but if you listen to the sound in the video you might come to a different conclusion. Also…
Quick, easy, temporary, and beautiful LED garden lights
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For a late night summer party, we wanted to deploy an array of maybe 20 or so little LED garden lights along the periphery of our back yard. And since it was for a… | |
MAKE: Top 10 How-To Videos
Everybody likes a good top 10 list, including all of us at MAKE. I asked everyone what his or her favorite MAKE videos were, and compiled a list. So without further ado, I present the Make…
Arduinome: An Arduino-Based Monome Clone, Behind the Scenes
The Monome project, a USB MIDI and OpenSoundControl control surface for music and art, was built on open source principles, on its users making the product better as they used it. Its community has…
Easier DIY Controllers: MachineCollective in Beta, Shipping Next Month
There’s a growing appetite for using custom controllers or creating DIY controllers from scratch. Why not, after all, get exactly the number of knobs and sliders you want, in just the layout you…
The Fangs Of Love Are Sharp, And Apparently Wooden, On The Middleman [The Middleman Recap]
I’m still reeling from the revelations in last night’s new Middleman episode. Well, two revelations in particular, both involving Lacey, the show’s unsung star. I almost had a…5 Things We Want To See In The Clone Wars TV Show [Star Wars]
By now you’ll have seen the movie - or, perhaps, decided that you don’t want to see the movie because even just the idea of Ahsoka has scared you off - and know what kind of thing to expect…5 Manga Movies We Want to See After Akira Blows Everyone's Mind [Future Manga Masterpiece Movies]
Just a temporal hop, skip and a jump away is 2009’s live-action big screen version of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira, but if the American adaptation of the manga/anime phenomenon that launched a…Video: Calexico's Desert Noir Turns Plaid
Joey Burns and John Convertino’s Calexico is still riding the cultural divide, blending Southwestern balladry and Latin influence with brooding indie rock. Its song “Crystal Frontier” even…
Kick-Ass Casting Gives Us All A Little McLovin [Kick-Ass: The Movie]
Christopher Mintz-Plasse (better known as McLovin from Superbad) is in negotiations to be the evil Red Mist in the new ultra-violent movie adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s …Genetically-Engineered Trees Can Dissolve Themselves into Fuel [Mad Genomics]
Worried about all the energy that’s required to break poplar trees down into usable fuel? Never fear: We’ll just stick some fungus genes into that poplar so that the tree can rapidly ferment…Bigfoot Hunters Fail to Produce Creature's Corpse
PALO ALTO, California — Georgia residents Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer say they’ve found Bigfoot — and not only that, they say they have his body. They just didn’t happen to have the…
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