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Sunlight Poem – Ji Yeon Song’s one-day poem projector made of cardboard and sunlight.
Pedal-Powered Blender – David Butcher outfits a bike with a generator that can run a blender.
Handmade Theremin- Lorin Parker’s musical instrument is played without being touched.
Time-lapse Camera – Jay Burlage... hacks into a clock to create an inexpensive way of taking panning time-lapse photography.

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Meet CCRMA, a group of musical makers who stretch the sonic boundaries by turning personal computers into an electronic symphony. Based at Stanford University, CCRMA teams composers, artists and acoustical researchers together to meld music with new technology and explore the outer limits of audio from playground-acti...vated sounds to laptop orchestras. Then see the origins of the synthesizer.

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John Park hacks a Wii controller and turns it into a personal flight recorder that can sense and measure the stomach-churning G forces of roller coasters and other high-speed, high-risk activities.

Download the PDF for this project here:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/02/maker_workshop_pdf_personal_flight.html

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Make: television presents:

Tesla coil guitar – Steve Connor plays his tesla coil guitar amplifier
RFID implant – Amal Graafstra opens locks and other devices with his hand-implanted RFID tag.
LED fan sign – Kip Kedersha lights up the baseball bleachers with his homemade sign.
Solar-powered Gondola – Reno Tondelli takes us... on a spin with his Solar Powered Bicycle Gondola.

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Journey upstream with environmentalist Dan McCormick, a maker who crafts intricate watershed sculptures out of woven willow branches. Dan places his eco-art in gullies and riverbanks to help reduce erosion and filter out sediment and farm fertilizers that can clog streams and suffocate spawning salmon. And see other ...manmade structures built to help fish return to their origins.

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John Park builds some lively and inexpensive miniature robots. Starting with a simple vibrabot made from a scrub brush, John assembles a solar junkbot and a slightly more complex beetlebot, which has paper clip ‘feelers’ attached to switches that allow it to respond to its environment. All it takes are a few common el...ectronic components and some everyday objects and you can make an entertaining robot all your own.

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Make: television presents:

Uber Tuber – Zack Gens and Ted Groessling slice and French fry potatoes with each blast of an air cannon.
Freeline Skates - Ryan Farrelly’s skates are made to simply step on and ride like two mini-skateboards.
Asteroids Watch - John Maushamer’s watches tell time while playing Asteroids and Pong....
Motorized Wheelchair – Lance Greathouse’s custom wheelchair shoots flames.

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Ride along with Ali Momeni and his bicycle fleet of mobile video projectors that transform public spaces into eye-popping sound and light shows. Ali’s group, ‘Art on Wheels’ brings ephemeral art to the masses by modifying vendor carts into portable projection systems that can roll to a site, set up and illuminate city ...walls at a moment’s notice, then whisk away into the night. Also, see the first projector, the “magic lantern,” that’s still in use today. Read More