I hate wires. I will be SO happy when we are free of them completely. And while I try to be great at cable management, inevitably it always turns into a birds nest behind my computer, entertainment center, and router. I’ve got a wireless transmitter for my projector so that I don’t have to have…
My brother and his wife came to our house for Thanksgiving this year. At the end of the night while we were sitting around feeling extremely bloated he asked me if I had any of our old video game consoles. When we were kids we would spend endless nights (because we couldn’t play during the…
Sometimes I will just browse ebay for cool old crap stuff. I was trying to come up with something handmade to give to my wife for Christmas this year and this old desktop microphone caught my eye. And you know what’s better than one microphone lamp? Two microphone lamps. Ah ah ah. I have to say…
With all of these projects that I’ve been doing I would say that more than half of the fun comes from the ‘blue sky‘ beginnings. Having no limits allows me to sit back and think, ‘wouldn’t it be cool if…’. That being said, having constraints can also inspire and force one to come up with…
My wife and I have really been into re-purposing old/broken ‘things.’ A few years ago we took a broken old microphone and turned it into a lamp. And these days it feels like I’m constantly rewiring the insides of old radio for someone. While Iwas looking for old radios on eBay I found this… An old space heater…
So as you know, I’ve been taking old radios and turning them into little music players to put around the house or give as gifts. Basically just keeping the shell of the original speaker and replacing the inside with new parts that work. I’ve been pretty happy with the ones that I’ve made so far…
My most recent dilemma in home automation was how to stream our record player to our wireless radios. It is located in a different room than our receiver, which is located in a different room than our main speaker. Funny enough our main speaker is an old turntable system from the 60’s that we thought…
I’ve been really trying to embrace the whole maker/DIY idea both in my life and in my projects. I think that it’s valuable for learning and it’s less wasteful, or at least can be. In this case I wanted to relearn what I had taught myself over a decade ago; the basics of el wire….
We needed a lamp. We needed a lamp that wasn’t from Target or Ikea. We needed a lamp for sophisticated adults. So like any ‘hip’ kid we went to the Rose Bowl Antique Flea Market to find one. We figured amongst the thousands of rows of overpriced antiques that we would be able to find…
A couple of years ago I was given an old radio from my mom. I wanted it because it looked cool and thought that it would look nice on a shelf. Turned out that it still worked, or more accurately, still turned on. I was able to do some simple wiring and cram in an…
In order to get my master’s degree in music technology at NYU I needed to complete my final project. My whole first year I expected that I would be doing a research paper on either film sound or interactive audio, perhaps even underwater audio recording techniques. However during my penultimate semester I took a class where…