Best of CRAFT
Here are some of my favorite posts from the CRAFT blog this week: Star Wars Amigurumi DIY Silver Polish HOW TO – Make Reusable Teabags Felted Plant Cozies Meet the Monsters from CRAFT: 06
Month: April 2008
Zaphod Beeblebrox Teddies
Cory @ BoingBoing writes: The ZZ Plural Z Alpha Douglas Adams fan club raises funds by selling “Beeblebears,” two-headed, three-eyed, three-armed teddy bears fashioned in the likeness of Zaphod Beeblebrox. I bought one for the kid last week and she loves it in all its mutant splendor.
Ion-etching on human hair
While Joel Johnson of Boing Boing Gadgets was at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, he was shown this amazing picture of the McMaster school logo Ion-etched onto a human hair: Dr. LaPierre’s group used a focus ion beam microscope (FIB) to shoot a beam of gallium ions at the surface of a human hair, carving […]
SynthDIY collective resource
SynthDIY.com is “collective Link BLOG” full of music synthesizer schematics, links and project ideas, like the EFM DBop drum machine – This is really DBopII. I built the first one after I destroyed my Korg Minipop in 1985. At the time it was the only way I had to get a beat on my 4 […]
Felted Plant Cozies
Now that it’s April, I’m itching to fill my home with plants, plants, and more plants. I’m always looking for offbeat planters and these felted plant cozies by Papaver Vert look are definitely giving me ideas. The felted wool paired with the fresh green of the leaves is a wonderfully organic-feeling match. Felted Plant Cozies
Beats from a barcode
Mads sent us info on this project which derives beat sequencing data from barcodes – It questions whether barcodes can contain musical qualities and be used as a media of sound and rhythm. It is intriguing to see everyday items, like milk, transform into sound. The user uses a standard barcode scanner to scan a […]
Repairing paperbacks
By way of Mister Jalopy and Dinosaurs + Robots comes this interesting tip on repairing paperback book covers by reheated and reseating the cover to the spine. I’m definitely going to try this (first on an expendable title, as suggested). Ironing Paperback Spines
