Craft & Design

From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.

3D Printing Paganini’s Famous Violin

Embarking on a remarkable journey of innovation and cultural heritage preservation, 3DiTALY, Italy’s leading 3D printing organization set in Rome, is revolutionizing the restoration and replication of Guarnieri’s iconic ‘Il Cannone di Paganini’ violin. With cutting-edge 3D scanning and printing techniques, this groundbreaking project ensures the enduring legacy of this legendary instrument, exemplifying the fusion […]

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Let This Gallery Of Cosplay From ComicCon 2023 Inspire Your Next Build

Let This Gallery Of Cosplay From ComicCon 2023 Inspire Your Next Build

Every year at ComicCon we see a smorgasbord of fantastic cosplay work. Luckily this year, a few folks have volunteered to collect images so that we can be inspired for our future builds. Unfortunately, we didn’t get social media tags for each of these, so if you know who any of them are, feel free […]

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close view of pipe organ keys with electronic display

OpenPipes Revolutionizes the DIY Pipe Organs

Note: If you are considering a vacation in Italy in October, remember that Maker Faire Rome The European Edition, one of the world’s largest Maker Faires, will be taking place in Rome from the 20th to the 22nd. If you’ve ever dreamed of playing a majestic pipe organ but thought it was out of reach, […]

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Using 3D Printers And Science To Make Awesome Sounding Speakers

Using 3D Printers And Science To Make Awesome Sounding Speakers

3D printing presents a fantastic tool for making speakers. If you’ve looked at how modern speakers are made you’ll find that there is all kinds of complex internal geometry that can lead to better sound. As DIY Perks points out, this makes 3D printing the best tool for the job. Unfortunately, the material of plastic […]

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Creating A Magical Wizard’s Study With Nerdforge

Creating A Magical Wizard’s Study With Nerdforge

Martina and Hans at Nerdforge really keep upping the quality and scale of their work and they’ve really blown us away with this one. The concept sketch looks very incredible. If someone showed me that concept, I’d probably recommend they scale back their expectations. Nerdforge, however, delivers absolutely. The spiral staircase and fire place stand […]

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The Quest To Make Player Piano Rolls Using lasers

The Quest To Make Player Piano Rolls Using lasers

I’ve found player pianos fascinating since I was a kid. The first time I saw a player piano was at the Mall of the Bluffs in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a grand piano playing away with no one around. A player piano seems like something out of fiction, a dream imagined by someone in the early […]

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Read This Before 3D Scanning In A Museum

Read This Before 3D Scanning In A Museum

Scanning in museums is the perfect challenge for the photogrammetry hobbyist. Not all museums have in-house scanning programs, but it’s important to archive and share these objects with people all over the world. You can help make it happen. Photogrammetry is the process of converting hundreds of photos into a 3D model. The principles of 3D scanning […]

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