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BLOG: February 2011
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A chronicle of ideas and projects from an expert thinker in repurposing obsolete technology and discarded materials. Fishing with Rare Earth Magnets. For Fun and Profit. In the Shop Vac. Links to this post. Hardware Hacking for Zevs' "Hip to be Square". Recently I completed a hardware hacking gig for the French street artist Zevs. In New York City, as part of Zevs' "Liquidated Version". Exhibition (running through April 7th). I considered saving space by using discrete electronics and circuit boards, but...
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BLOG: Homemade Wire Spool Holder
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A chronicle of ideas and projects from an expert thinker in repurposing obsolete technology and discarded materials. Homemade Wire Spool Holder. I recently made a visit to Al Lasher's Electronics. And the other end has a slot to make the dowel removable. I made the slot by running a spade bit through the wood a few times, then chiseled out the excess bits. Works like a charm so far. It's always a good thing to put some work in to streamline the building process. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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BLOG: October 2011
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A chronicle of ideas and projects from an expert thinker in repurposing obsolete technology and discarded materials. As many of you know, I'm a big fan of old media, especially audio cassette tapes. This will be the realization of an idea I've had for a while, which is to make a musical instrument using tape. A rotating cylinder containing strips of tape with different tones on them will be played by tape heads attached to my fingers. Check out my NIME proposal on Prezi. Links to this post. For the Big G...
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BLOG: May 2011
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A chronicle of ideas and projects from an expert thinker in repurposing obsolete technology and discarded materials. Scrapwood Box, String, and Text: "Provenance". A couple of months I covered the construction of a scrapwood box. I've been using to keep materials in. The hacked together look made it an oddity amongst my other functional furniture pieces I've made before. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Subscribe in a reader. Push The Other Button. There was an error in this gadget.
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BLOG: August 2011
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A chronicle of ideas and projects from an expert thinker in repurposing obsolete technology and discarded materials. Flexible Venn Diagram Crowdsources Comparative Relationships. This was a quick project, borne out of a piece of scrap MDF left over from someone's laser cutter project. The circles were joined just so to make a venn diagram, and sized perfectly for post-it notes. The idea came as soon as I picked the piece up. As you can see, over the three weeks it remained up on the ITP.
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BLOG: November 2010
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A chronicle of ideas and projects from an expert thinker in repurposing obsolete technology and discarded materials. Bounce Announce" Visualization Element. I've decided to take the Bounce Announce. Project and add visualization to it utilizing piezo sensors and processing. Every instrument will have a piezo trigger attached to it, that will be processed by Arduino and fed to a Processing visualization sketch. Links to this post. Hooking an Electric Fence into an LCD Monitor. Links to this post. I've got...
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BLOG: March 2011
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A chronicle of ideas and projects from an expert thinker in repurposing obsolete technology and discarded materials. The Bounce Announce Automated Musical Instrument. This project completed as my final project for both Physical Computing and Introduction to Computational Media at ITP. Briefly, ping pong balls roll down 4 individual tracks, and are launched at the bottom by solenoids. The solenoids are triggered rhythmically by an Arduino. Here's a video documentation of the project. Enjoy! I just can't s...
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BLOG: November 2011
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A chronicle of ideas and projects from an expert thinker in repurposing obsolete technology and discarded materials. Spines of Theses' Past. Over the summer I worked at ITP, and one of the jobs I had was to help in scanning every single thesis in ITP's archive from the past thirty years. Papers had to be taken out of folders, binders, and bindings. Links to this post. Anyway, here a couple of pics from that course. The assignment was "something blue" so I raided my junk box for all that seemed to fit...
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BLOG: July 2011
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A chronicle of ideas and projects from an expert thinker in repurposing obsolete technology and discarded materials. Lamp Painted Honda Glacier Blue. Since my wife and I moved back to New York City after a two year stint in upstate New York, we quickly found it difficult and impractical to hang on to our 2008 Honda CRV with the Glacier Blue finish. Links to this post. How To Build a Loft Bed. When my wife and I moved back to NYC last year, our new apartment was still packed to the gills despite some sign...
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BLOG: Magnetotron Featured on MAKE and Hackaday
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A chronicle of ideas and projects from an expert thinker in repurposing obsolete technology and discarded materials. Magnetotron Featured on MAKE and Hackaday. So the folks at MAKE. Did an awesome profile of me and my Magnetotron, plus I just found out that Hackaday. Featured it as well. Very excited here in NYC. BTW, if anyone's interested in the Magnetotron, I'm accepting offers for its sale. Email me - colombo.michael [at] gmail.com. December 1, 2012 at 2:37 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).