DIY Weekend: Sonic sculpture for arcade lovers
Artist/nerd Steve D'Angelo calls this a sculpture, but we think it's more than that. It's an awesome sculpture.
It's called Action Buttons, and that's exactly what it is. Steve, a Crave reader in Pennsylvania, has put a collection of arcade game buttons on the surface of a small plywood box and wired them up to old-school audio samples downloaded from the Web that play when the arcade-like buttons are pressed.
The sounds aren't from specific games but sound like they could be, with titles like "energize," "fire laser," "… Read more