Music-reactive LED Christmas tree turns holiday decor into an interactive display
Holiday lighting has long relied on repeated patterns and static effects, but this music-reactive LED Christmas tree brings a new dimension to seasonal decor by…
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This 500-Million-Year-Old Nautilus Shell Is Now a Speaker
The Sazae Radio was a Japanese novelty radio built into a turban shell, sold by lottery in 2016 with just 100 units available for 8,350…
DIY Lo-Fi Cassette Machine turns Bluetooth streaming into a living, analog kinetic sculpture
This Lo-Fi Cassette Machine feels like something pulled straight from an alternate timeline—one where streaming never erased the tactile magic of analog media. It takes…
Timeless rotary phone reborn as modern AI-powered companion that plays music
Who can forget the charm of rotary phones that were a lifeline in the early ’90s and ’80s? Their iconic mechanical dialling wheel with finger…
Trace Line Clock Uses a Single Hand to Sketch Time as a Moving Line
Clocks are one of the oldest design playgrounds, and yet most of us still live with the same two-hand layout we grew up with. Designers…
DIY Coffee Sand Table Turns a Living Room Surface Into Moving Art
Most coffee tables are static slabs of wood, glass, or stone, maybe with a stack of books on top that never gets read. There’s a…
Nike Air Max 90 turned into fully playable SNES console is the ultimate retro-modern mashup
Sneaker culture and gaming go a long way back, good enough reason we’ve seen many interesting collaborations that signify the retro-modern charm of reliving the…
Dad Built a 4-Step Sequencer Synth Simple Enough for Age 3
A father built a portable synthesizer for his daughter’s third birthday, and the result looks almost too polished to be a first electronics project. It’s…
YouTuber custom-builds coffee table with functional star system around an exploding sun
Have you ever dreamed of sitting around the solar system? Modder at The 5439 Workshop on YouTube may have just made it possible with this…
DIY 3D-Printed Clamshell Turns BOOX Palma Into a Tiny Laptop
Palmtops and UMPCs are experiencing a quiet resurgence among people who want something more focused than a laptop and more tactile than a phone. Compact…
Someone Built a Working Synth From Cardboard and Walnut Keys
Most synthesizers look and feel like appliances. They’re plastic boxes mass-produced in factories, efficient and functional but utterly lacking in personality or warmth. Pianos and…
DIYer builds first 100% solar-powered drone that flies without batteries
It’s not usual for DIYers to step up and experiment with the logic of solar-powered devices as we know it. The ideal generally is to…