When pondering if I should buy a MacBook or a MaxBook Pro one thing that talked against the MacBook was it’s plain whiteness. I decided for the cheaper alternative but I did not accept the whiteness. This is my journey towards getting this awesome tentacles on my computer. The first thing I did whas deciding [...]
Long-time reader of this blog may remember me having an idea of creating a binaural beat generator based on 2 APC. real all about it here http://www.larsby.com/johan/?p=67. Well so, I made it. I was going to make a few APC’s anyway so I might as well test the idea. I used http://www.electro-music.com/forum/phpbb-files/thumbs/t_apc555_129.gif so I could [...]
In Sweden we have “slöjd” in school. That is both woodworks/metalworks and also stuff with textiles. The reasoning is that every one when finished shall be able to do some basic woodwork and sew back a loose button. I was more interested in the usage of powertools and saw’s but we were all forced to [...]
GRATTIS LOTTA! One of my kid sisters has her birthday-party today, and I wanted her to have a blast of nostalgia. When we where kids parties used to have at least one of these cactus of candy. So me and the kids made one for her. Ingredients: A pot, a cucumber, wasabi nuts, toothpicks (wooden), [...]
I made this photo as a present for my friend Christian. I also made the frame, it’s not as awesome as the picture though. The idea came when I bought that hat, in Swedish it’s called a sydvest, and I was parading around the office with it, I threw the idea out that one should [...]
This summer me and the kids built a little ghettoblaster I was thinking of bringing to the Norbergfestival. Sadly though I never brought it to the festival, since in it’s current state doesn’t produce enough volume for outdoor-listening (in hi-fi atleast) What we did was basically: * Get a few planks to build the shell. [...]
Last week, or if it was the week before I signed up at 8bitcollective, a site for fans of chipmusic and 8bit aesthetics in general. I was doing this while I was having a little Nintendo revival at home, trying to get the Game Boy Advance up and running and trying out LSDJ. In that [...]
So I’ve been thinking about this idea for a few days. First of let me explain the idea. The Atari Punk Console is a piece of gear that has been around a long time. It’s a noise machine that makes some noises that are similar to an Atari, at least in the mind of the [...]
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What why? A while ago I found an interesting post on the arduino forums about a guy who made a 8×8 LED panel for his friend to use to visualise when playing music. So when I was browsing my local thrift-store I found an old slide viewer (for you kids, it’s an old pre digital [...]