Monthly Archives: May 2010
I think often about how to make school less of a pain. It became clear pretty quickly when I arrived at university that it wasn’t going to be quite the enlightened community of learners that I had imagined in high school. The general approach to undergraduate engineering education (I can’t speak for the humanities, but [...]
Last summer, I had the pleasure of spending some time at the Madagascar Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Madagascar is an art combine that specializes in building scary, awesome things (think fire, lots of fire). It’s a great place run by lovely people. The goal at Madagascar, succinctly, is to produce dangerous art. Conventional mediums are [...]
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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 [...]
5 axis milling machines are great. Obviously.