My new internet radio, originally uploaded by afiler.

It has knobs like a real radio, but yet it plays modern radio stations. There’s no screen yet, but one is coming.

I use an Arduino to connect the switches and selector knob to the computer inside, and it uses mpd (the music player daemon) to tune through a playlist of internet radio stations. Code for that is at github.com/afiler/filko.

_DSC6770.JPG, originally uploaded by metrixcreate.

I made this laser-cut signage for Metrix in their house style: black and red, with Eurostile as the typeface. (The hanging sign now actually says “METRIX CREATE SPACE” instead of just “EAT”).

Up next: a laser-cut moveable letter board.

For less than the cost of a cup of coffee is a terribly awkward phrase. Consider substituting “Stella“, the name of an extremely rare $4 coin minted in 1879 and 1880. Sure, only 425 of them were made, but isn’t explaining the Stella preferable to using that phrase yet again?