Guitar Built out of an Ammunition Box

After Tate Chmielewski first encountered cigar box guitars at a folk music festival, he started building musical instruments from unconventional source materials. This is an electric guitar with one EMG active pickup based around an old ammunition box. Link, Via: Neatorama

Decorating Cables Instead of Hiding Them

nstead of hiding dust-ball-hunting spaghetti cable monsters behind furniture, I've decided to embrace chaos and transform it. Actually, my wife has. These decorative cable clips seem perfect for it, and simpler than squiggling cords on the wall. [PA-Design, Via: Unplggd], Via: Gizmodo

MythBuster Adam Savage + SBU (Self-Balancing Unicycle)

Adam Savage of the MythBusters receives his SBU, an electric self-balancing unicycle by Focus Designs Inc. LINK: Youtube

The Electric Canvas @ The National Museum of Singapore

The Electric Canvas, Night Festival 2008 @ The National Museum of Singapore. LINK: Youtube

Electronically Modified Didgeridoo Kyle Evans

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Kyle Evans created a electric didgeridoo that can be performed wirelessly through a bluetooth transmission to his computer:

I created this instrument to experiment in the combination of the organic sound qualities of a didgeridoo with the advanced signal processing capabilities of modern computer programming and sound synthesis. This custom built didgeridoo features externally mounted modules that allow the performer to process and manipulate the sound of the instrument in real time. All control data is transmitted wirelessly via blue tooth and is controlling several audio processes created in a custom-built software environment.

You can view complete schematics for the instrument and videos of live performances at Evans’ blog.

Via: Make | Evans’ blog about the project |Via: Neatorama

Mavizen's 130 mph Electric Motorcycle Has Built-In Web Server, WiFi and Linux

Mavizen's TTX02 electric motorcycle is being dubbed as "a laptop on wheels". A really, really fast laptop on wheels.





Besides it's impressive top speed, the interesting thing about the bike is that it features a dedicated IP address, on-board web server, WiFi and Linux. LINK, Youtube video One, video two

YikeBike - pre launch party

Designed and constructed in Christchurch New Zealand, the YikeBike is the worlds smallest, lightest electric folding bicycle at less than 10kg. LINK: Youtube

Old video of talking electric guitar

Peter Frampton wasn't the first guitar player to put a plastic tube in his mouth to make his instrument talk. Pete Drake, a phenomenal steel guitar player, shows his stuff in the delightful video with an unusually moribund group of backup singers, musicians, and people who are sitting around in what appears to be a drug- or witchcraft-induced trance. LINK, VIA: Youtube

Electric Origami

This origami cube is more than just an LED paper lantern. Its circuitry is made of flexible aluminum foil fused to the paper! You can make it yourself with instructions from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, and you can adapt the shape to your favorite origami project. Link, Via: Neatorama

Electric eel lights up Xmas tree

Dec 13 - A new Christmas installation is taking centre stage at a Japanese acquarium involving an electric eel and Christmas tree lights.

The electric eel discharges up to 800 watts of power and every time the creature moves it lights up the Christmas tree.

The eel and the tree has been a crowd puller, with hundreds coming to watch the eel move and the lights twinkle. LINK: Reuters.com