I am a beginning robot enthusiast. I got hooked looking at the article in Make: 07 about the scribbler. Robotics is a bigger project than a weekend. If you are looking for something simple, you could mess about with a kit or reverse engineer this. I got lucky and found the chassis and motors for […]
Hey Crafters! Just another reminder that Goli, Katie, and I will have a CRAFT magazine table at the Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago. Come by and pick up a CRAFT mini-booklet and say hi! Link.
There’s a new indie crafts blog in town called Indie Fixx, filled with lots of great handmade crafts. They’ve just launched a cool contest called I Support Indie Knockout, where you can win a bunch of indie goods. From the site, “Are you a supporter of indie products? Do you buy handmade items from DIY […]
Elizabeth Genco has a great step-by-step tutorial up on her flickr on how to make a zine with one sheet of paper. There’s event a sample template you can download. Link.
Tim Hunkin is a British inventor who recently made a solar powered sign that wiggles. His design for it was to run it by wind. His solar solution is a great read. The letters of the sign sway up and down as if they are bobbing about on the waves. There’s nothing very complicated about […]
Professor Yury Gitman teaches at Parson’s Design + Technology Program and has a great photo montage of various electronic toys he’s made and what’s inside. What’s fantastic is that he and his students also break apart electronic toys that are on the market now in the toy store, aptly called “toy autopsies”. Link.
Here’s a great tutorial on transferring a design from the computer onto a fabric pillow. In this case, it’s the cool drawings by Roy Lichtenstein. Link.
