In the first of a two-part series, we visit Make magazine’s second annual Maker Faire in the SF Bay Area. There we meet Dale Dougherty, the editor and publisher of Make and founder of the Maker Faire. We also learn about Art Center College for Design professor Phillip Van Allen’s open source hardware and software […]
If you have an music player that’s not an iPod but want to use iTunes to manage the music you can use iTunes Sync from Binary Fortress Software… It also should work with removable storable like SD, etc… – [via] Link.
You may have seen or heard of Jimbo’s wonderful hand-carved crochet hooks (we featured him in the Curio section of CRAFT Volume 01; look out for his hook carving DIY in the upcoming issue of CRAFT, Volume 04, due out next month). Now he’s added a new twist, by creating a hook for Hooking for […]
Magda of Villiku has a tutorial on how to make your own fabric covered buttons. Link. Related: Fabric Covered Thumb Tacks – Link.
Incredible video of the xfinger – The X-Finger is the world’s first active-function artificial finger assembly designed specifically for partial finger amputees. The device allows users to regain complete control of the flexion and extension movements of an artificial finger in a self-contained device. It is designed to bend a silicone finger sheath in a […]
Alicia Kachmar made these cute crochet jellyfish. There’s lots of cute photos and she says she’ll put up the pattern soon on her blog or Etsy. Link.
Perspective techniques to extract a 3D model from a painting, nice! – Constructing 3D models of buildings is all about extracting the geometry from images using photogrammetric techniques. As such, although it goes against basic geometric principles it also lends itself to historic reconstruction via referenced hand drawn images. Over eight years ago we used […]
