This week’s interview is with Heidi Kenney, the creative mind behind one of the craft world’s most popular websites, MyPaperCrane. Kenney has gained a dedicated following who snap up her colorful handspun yarns, quirky anthropomorphic plush toys, and super-sweet paintings nearly as fast as she can create them. Her work is available in a wide […]
Octopart has a multi-vendoe shopping cart for your parts now, check it out – While you’re searching for parts, add the ones you’d like to buy to your partlist. When you’re done, click the buy button to start choosing distributors you want to purchase the parts from. After you’ve made all your choices, you can […]
The NYC Resistor Microcontroller Study Group will have its first meeting this upcoming friday from 7:30-9:30 at the Lemurplex! Looking for a group of folks to talk shop with about microcontrollers? Is your microcontroller project lonely? Brush off the dust or put together a microcontroller project and bring it down to share at the first […]
This all in one camera remote is now an Arduino project, nice! – One of my other hobbies is photography, and, about a year ago, I purchased a new digicam – a Panasonic FZ30. I joined the Panasonic forum on the dpreview site. One of the posters, a programmer and electronic hobbyist, designed a nifty […]
The turnout at Saturday’s paper bead demo at the L.A. County Fair (hosted by myself and CRAFT Ed-in-Chief Carla Sinclair) was wonderful! Pictured above is Lindsey, a sweet kid who took to the craft almost immediately and whipped up this cute necklace for herself. A lot of people walked away with fun new jewelry that […]
Shannon points us to Green Kitchen who shows us how to make your own cookie cutters out of metal strips like these gnome shaped ones above. Link.
Billing it as the world’s smallest humanoid robot, toymaker Tomy has released a video of the i-Sobot, showing off what it can do. Pretty impressive for something that will retail for US$299. Amazon already has it available for preorder. It will allegedly ship next month. i-SOBOT Rocks, Rolls, And Somersaults – Link i-SOBOT [Robots Rule!] […]
