Spoke POV is an easy-to-make electronic kit toy that turns your bicycle wheel into a customized display! The project includes a free schematic design, open source software for uploading and editing stored bitmap images, and a high-quality kit with all the parts necessary to build your own.
Specs:

Can be used with road, mountain or BMX wheels!

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In his unrelenting pursuit to frame Montana as the most bigoted and ass-backward state in the nation, Conrad Burns recently warned “guests” at his $250-a-plate ice cream social (featuring first lady Laura Bush) that the U.S. faces a serious threat from “faceless” terrorists that “drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill at night”.
Spoken exactly […]

I got this lot of slides about three years ago and I’ve never been able to figure out just what is going on. There are about 50 slides in all- all dating from between 1959 and 1969 and all of young women. Some, like the ones here have letters written on their foreheads, others have […]

This small, sixteen-page pamphlet is produced to put inside the postage-paid, business-reply envelopes that come with junk mail offers. Every envelope collected is stuffed with the pamphlet and mailed back to its original company.

During the late 1930s and early 1940s the prevalent sound recording apparatus was the wax disk cutter. As a consequence of the lack of materials in the Eastern European & USSR war-time economies, some inventive sound hunters made their own experiments with new materials within their reach.
I do not know the name of the inventor […]

To the uninitiated, modern jazz can sound like a secret language, full of unpredictable melodies and unexpected rhythms. For alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, however, the idea of jazz as code is more than just a metaphor.
Mahanthappa is best known for combining avant-garde jazz with Indian classical music. But for his latest release, Codebook, from Pi […]