The Suitcase Machine

Rufio is made from walnut and pine. His arms and legs are jointed with pine dowel. The whole piece was hand carved and took about 20 hours t...

Michael Schaffer, creator of software program Ardrumo (http://code.google.com/p/ardrumo/), was a great help and inspiration for this project...

"Think Of A Card Box" is made inside of a Griffin's cigar box. There are electronics built inside to make the magic part work ...

"Digital Scratch Pad" was made using a 555 timer IC . The sound is controlled through a photo-cell which is sensitive to light. As...

"Coins Across" is a classic of magic. The trick dates back to way before I was born. It's when someone makes a couple of coins...

The "Recycled Etcha-Sketcha" is mostly made from found or broken electronics. The motors, potentiometers, knobs, and switches came...

"The Cocoa Card Rise" is made inside of a vintage Walter Baker tin. The turning knob was found outside of my band's practice s...

"The Animal Cookie Hot Air Balloon" is portable and can be performed anywhere. I can't explain what the machine is made of ins...

"Heart Box" was made in a Tic-Tac container. I was inspired by a schematic schowing how to make an LED sensitive to light. There a...

This is "The Audio Portrait Artist"(TAPA). It is made from recycled DC motors, cigar boxes, pieces from a broken multimeter, roof ...

"Recycled Sound" is an amplified speaker made with recycled objects: a lemon tin, old radio knobs, and a metal shot glass. The sho...

The Bell Box is made of a salvaged cigar box, a pick-up sticks box, and some scrap wood. The bell parts are brass piping. Three solenoid mot...

The Lie Detector is made with two recycled DC motors from old printers. The circuit is made up of a triple 5 timer and two transistors for ...

These are two different drawings made by "Oscar with an A". The one in blue ink was during a punk and blues guitar session with Jo...

This is a drawing machine made from recycled objects. The heart of "Oscar with an A" is an Arduino microcontroller. The machine se...