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Some interesting things I found recently:

# CHEAP, FAT and OPEN – Jacob Sikker Remin's Arduino based syntesizer, his final project at the CIID (Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design).

Synth features

• atmega328 processor
• 12bit DAC sound
• 16 LEDs run through shift registers for sequencing control
• LCD display
• rotary encoder for multi purpose tweaking
• stylophone keyboard
• expression control through body switches
• wireless receiver and transmitter through infrared light (control your synth with your remote control!)
• passive volume control
• 5 navigational keys and 1 home key (can be expanded with shoulder keys)

# Hemisphere Games Osmos – Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack.

Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax… good things come to those who wait.

Progress from serenely ambient levels into varied and more challenging worlds. Confront attractors, repulsors and intelligent motes with similar abilities and goals as you.

# Alternative Music Distribution: Moldover’s CD Case as Circuit Board Noisemaker

Peter Kirn writes:

Moldover is the latest artist to experiment with ways of re-imagining the musical object. Already a fan of custom sonic circuitry, he made his CD into a circuit board. Some of it is just aesthetic, like the printed lettering. But there is also integrated noise-making circuitry for a very simple optical Theremin (well, at least, a light sensor-driven oscillator), plus a headphone jack. There’s actually quite a lot of function you can get out of that when plugging into a computer.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on February 6th, 2008:

• thing a day 3: matchbox synthesizer – The most adorable little synthesizer ever. For the thing-a-day project.

Matchbox synthesizer by ranjit. There’s a video here.

• Interview: Building a Musical Ensemble Out of Ford Focus Car Parts – Deconstructing a brand-new Ford Focus into a full instrumental ensemble in just five weeks.
• BYOC build your own clone – B.Y.O.C. offers a full line of guitar DIY guitar FX kits that are based on some of the most famous circuits ever and use top shelf components to provide you with great sounding boutique quality effects pedals.

Dark Roasted Blend has posted a collection of the World’s Smallest Cars.

Smallest ever car to go into mass production was the fascinating “Peel” P50 car (you could almost carry it as a suitcase) – Image by Chris Littler.

From the post:

A product of traffic & parking problems in high-density urban areas, small cars have a lot of redeeming qualities. They are endlessly practical, often cute and mostly easy on your wallet. While you’d need to sacrifice much of your space and comforts, you’ll have a reward of being considered ecologically & street “smart”. Some of the models can go 40 km per liter (100 miles per gallon), which is advertised as “almost cheaper than walking”.

Check the Dark Roasted Blend article for more images of (mostly vintage) small cars. (Make sure to click on the images for larger versions and links to websites with more models).

Link via Make:Blog

paperinside has released a free model of the Munster Koach, a papercraft car.

Munster Koach paper model

More information about the Munster Koach can be found here.

Check paperinside for more papercraft models, like this new Star Trek Akyazi Class Defence Cruiser.

It’s getting a bit crowded where I live, and real estate is beginning to look pretty much out of reach for young people with an average income.

It could always be worse though…

Cynthia Habberstad, with her children, Andrew, Brielle and Brooke, said she regretted not buying a parking spot for $165,000 with the apartment she bought on West 28th Street. The spaces are now all taken.

From the NY Times:

In Houston, $225,000 will buy a three-bedroom house with a game room, den, in-ground pool and hot tub. In Manhattan, it will buy a parking space. No windows, no view. No walls.

While real estate in much of the country languishes, property in Manhattan continues to escalate in price, and that includes parking spaces. Some buyers do not even own cars, but grab the spaces as investments, renting them out to cover their costs.

Gotta love NYC!

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These crop circles don’t look like they usually do. It’s complex enough but seems to lack geometry.

Crop circle, or not?

From Metro.co.uk:

It may look like the latest aliens to land on our planet have been drinking and driving, but these bizarre patterns, discovered in a corn field in Holland, have a much more mundane explanation.

They were made by a drug (cocaine) user who was attempting to escape from police in his father’s car… Poor farmer.