HOW TO – Sew LEDs into clothing
CRAFT friend, Black Box Nation designer Diana Eng has a tutorial up on Gizmodo on how to sew LED’s into your clothing. Link. Related: CRAFT vol 1 – “The Electric Tank Top” by Leah Buechley – Link.
Year: 2006
HOW TO – Build your own secret bookshelf door
Here’s a great how-to on making your own secret room with a bookshelf door (complete with book unlocker)! Simon writes – “We were running out of shelf space in our back room, so I thought it’d be a fun project to build a shelf unit. It took about a month longer than I had planned […]
HOW TO – Make a Captain Jack… O’ Lantern
David and Jennilyn have a great how-to/build page of their “Captain Jack… O’ Lantern” [via] – Link. Related: Jack O’ Lanterns (tons of great photos!) – Link. Hack-o-Lantern contest: Decorate a pumpkin in any way you see fit, or unfit. It’s that easy. Then upload your photos to the MAKE or CRAFT Flickr photo pool […]
Electronic Etherealism event in NY
Giana Gonzalez of the ITP program at NYU gave us a heads up about this event happening this Friday and Saturday in New York. Electronic Etherealism will explore the intersections of fashion, technology, and creativity. From the site, “The point of departure for Electronic Etherealism and the Digital Perfume project is the bridging of the […]
Homemade MeKeVoRkA costume
Here’s Donivan’s entry for the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween contest, he writes – “This is my MeKeVoRkA costume I made a few years ago. The chest plate is using an EL sequencer that has been modified to use a larger inverter. Unfortunately the photos don’t show all the strands lit at once. There is a […]
AVR Robots (photos)
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Rbotguy uploaded a ton of really interesting homemade AVR based bots [via] – Link. Related: Robots @ MAKE – Link. AVR projects @ MAKE – Link.
Halloween egg carton spiders
The kids craft side Kiddley has a project inspired by Not Martha, this time paper egg carton spiders that’s fun for kids to make. Link.