BeetBox from Scott Garner on Vimeo.
Scott Garner, a student at NYU-ITP, created this wonderful musical instrument where the drums are actual beets. Here's Scott's description of the project:
Concept
The BeetBox is ...
beetbox :: organic musical instrument
Circuits, Organic Materials, Techniques
This is a guest blog post by Laurence Humier and includes a recipe from her new book (written in collaboration with Audrey Tardieu) Cooking Material: Could molecular gastronomy help discover new matter? (also available on ...
molecular gastronomy :: boric acid caramel
Chemicals, Techniques
In this video Becky Stern from Adafruit shows how to make a simple circuit on a transparent sheet of plastic coated with indium tin ...
transparent circuit boards
Circuits, Conductive Materials, Polymers, Techniques
This is a guest post by Victor Babbitt - thank you Victor for sharing your work with us.
Light is much harder to handle than electricity. How do we transfer large amounts of light over distances and around many corners? ...
liquid core light guides :: piping light around corners
Ceramics & Glass, Research, Techniques
I used to buy magnetic paint, but I wasn't very happy with its strength, consistency and color, so Nick Vermeer and I decided to make our own. More often than not, things turn out to be more complicated than they appear, ...
DIY magnetic ink
Materials 101, Metal, Techniques
A few months ago I visited Pumping Station: One where I met William McShane and saw his magnetic + conductive paint LED display. On the video above William explains how it works. This was recorded with my phone so the ...
fresh paint :: a magnetic + conductive ink LED display
Circuits, Conductive Materials, Techniques
A few months ago, Jordan Bunker from the hackerspace Pumping Station: One shared his experiments and simple recipe for a DIY conductive ink. Now, Nick Vermeer from the hackerspace NYC Resistor, arrived at a different ...
more DIY conductive inks
Conductive Materials, Techniques
The piano box is a (somewhat polyphonic) paper toy synthesizer with 12 keys, each triggering a tone and an LED. The keys are a set of capacitive sensors, made of copper tape, controlled by an Arduino Mega running the ...
piano box
Circuits, Paper, Techniques
Jordan Bunker from Pumping Station: One has been making his own conductive ink based on a paper written by researchers at the UIUC Materials Research Laboratory. This technique uses easily obtainable materials and tools, ...
hackerspace-made conductive ink
Conductive Materials, Techniques
