audio gadgetware
Arrrrrr’, on this Talk Like a Pirate Day, we be presentin’ one of our previous Random Friday logs in pirate-speak. Tip o’ me cap to this translator. Random Fridee: What We Bake 5 In this pita bread recipe, we use a stove fer heatin’ th’ bread instead o’ a hot oven. Our stove be at … Read more
Not taking sides here, but this caught our attention: Button available for purchase. [via boingboing]
Wind chimes are one nature-powered music device, but here is another: a solar thermal organ. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv0ulNLRkWM [video link] Parabolic reflectors power thermoacoustic variable-pitch pipe resonators. In another video the creator describes how the sun can cast shadows on arrays of thermal organs, changing sound as the sun moves. [kudos Make:]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z8fGGIbQaA] T J Hill demonstrates handsaw with contact mike and guitar effects. Very nice. Related post: Continuous Pitch [via Make: blog]
Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world (including this blog)? (Alternate opinion.)
In this pita bread recipe, we use a stove for heating the bread instead of a hot oven. Our stove is at a better work level than the oven, is easier to access for the short cooking “baking” times without a door in the way, and tends to heat the kitchen less during summer. Low(er) … Read more
Oddstrument Collection is having a contest for garden musical instruments: Things like wind chimes, outdoor gongs, bells, fountains, musical sculptures, “wind banjos”, etc. Think solar, wind, water powered and beyond. [via :Make] Related posts: Chime Variations, Building Wind Chimes
(image courtesy Wikimedia Commons) Michael F. Zbyszynski describes how to modify a solar yard light to make cricket sounds in this article from Make: (PDF) [kudos Make: blog]
Bioacoustician Bernie Krause is interviewed by Jennifer Ouellette for NewScientist. His project Wild Sanctuary aims to archive nature soundscapes before they are lost to human development. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f21PNOdGdC0] video link [hat tip Cocktail Party Physics]
If you enjoyed Neal Stephenson’s geek-historical-fiction Quicksilver and haven’t discovered David Bodanis Passionate Minds, then run, don’t walk, to the nearest bookseller or library. This real-life account of the turbulent relationship between two premier minds of the Enlightenment is not to be missed. images c/o Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons The author gives an account of … Read more