Pa++ern is a project by Japanese duo Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi that uses a special “esoteric embroidery language” to create custom embroidered t-shirts using Twitter as the control interface. The program uses sets of one character commands that instruct a sewing machine to excecute specific designs. Users can input these command codes via the Twitter micro-blogging service (@_pt), and view their results on the Pa++ern website.
The creators explain:
“Perhaps trying out a conventional machine in a different or unexpected manner can become a thrilling action for adults and can make them find new ideas, and turn around the predicted results [...]
July 14, 2009
Pa++ern: Embroidery by Twitter
May 22, 2009
Making Music With Ancient iPods
Members of the Reware project have hacked older-model iPods into video game style music sequencers, bringing a new life to the “obsolete” technology. See them in action below.
[via MAKE]
Read more...April 28, 2009
4Chan Founder Declared “World’s Most Influential Person”
The popular and rowdy message board 4Chan (very NSFW) has struck again. Best known as a fertile breeding ground for internet memes, a collective based around the site has hacked Time Magazine’s annual “World’s Most Influential Person” poll to place 4Chan founder moot at the top of the list. Time claims no significant foul play was involved, but looking at the results makes it very clear that something is amiss. Music Machinery does a good job of explaining the technical details behind this hack, which involved auto-voting programs and breaking a captcha system.
Music Machinery: “moot wins, Time Inc. loses”




