Continuing with my apparent quest to fill my new apartment entirely with furniture of my own making, here’s a coffee table that I just put together. I can’t say the idea was entirely mine, though. In fact, it was entirely Craft Magazine’s. All’s you do is take an old typesetter’s drawer (which can be found [...]
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So I just moved into a new place with a sweet deck and decided very quickly that we were going to need something to hang out around and eat on. Having seen this picnic table design, I built something that looks similar, but incorporates a few modifications. First off, I didn’t use cedar, because that [...]
An andantephone is an instrument that allows a player to step through the notes of a song as if they were walking along its timeline. Most andantephones (so far) consist of a series of tiles, one tile for each note in a song. A player can walk from tile to tile, actuating the notes with [...]
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Check out my latest stereo tube amp! Except for the knobs and paint, it was built entirely from the parts included in my fabulous Hobgob Stereo Tube Amp Kit, which is based on the circuit for poindexter’s Musical Machine. Just like the kit, it’s a push-pull amp that uses 6V6 tubes to give you about [...]
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For those of you that play guitar or are into the manic shredding stylings of Steve Vai, you might be familiar with this guitar: The hole in the body there is a handle. A while ago I got my hands on an old beat-up classical guitar and messed around with it a bit, namely adding [...]
This used to be a toy electric guitar. I grabbed it from a second hand store ages ago, tore it up, and sort of blindly connected things together until it made some odd noises. Those were the days when circuit bending was just at the peak of its internet popularity, and as a bored suburbanite [...]