X-tape is a series of printed adhesive tapes which gives the illusion that your package is sealed with o-rings, hinges, tower bolts or leather straps. Made me smile.
Made Me Smile
Small Change Project is an effort to make the world a happier place, one person at a time. By circulating $5 bills stamped with messages, random individuals are encouraged to invest that five dollars in someone else’s happiness. An excellent way to start 2013.
Fat and Furious Burger is a project initiated by Quentin Thomas and friends who decided to experiment every Friday by creating a new burger. This culinary project quickly turned into a triumph of staging and imagination. Great stuff.
BeetBox is a simple instrument that allows users to play drum beats by touching actual beets. It is powered by a Raspberry Pi with a capacitive touch sensor and an audio amplifier in a handmade wooden enclosure.
Inside the cabinet is a Raspberry Pi Model B computer hooked up to an MPR121 capacitive touch sensor. A Python script detects any touches on the beets, and plays drum samples using the pygame gaming module system. The sounds produced are fed to an LM386-based amp and on to a speaker located behind the holes in the wood.
Since 2006 Pittsburgh-based husband and wife Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth have run the Tugboat Printshop, a traditional printmaking studio where everything is made by hand, starting with the giant slabs of wood into which each of their images are carved. The Moon is their largest hand-carved relief print and will printed using two colors. Thumbs up!
(via Colossal)
