Indie Fixx is celebrating their 2nd Anniversary with a Craft-Off Contest just for you! Visit the Indie Fixx site to read the rules and all the fun prizes you can win, including a 1 year subscription to CRAFT! You can also visit the Indie Fixx Craft-off Flickr Group to see the crafty entries. But hurry, […]
Thank you to everyone who commented and entered the giveaway for Plexi Class: Cutting Edge Projects in Plastic by Tonia Davenport. The winners are Heather and Caroline who will each be receiving a signed copy of the book! We’ll have one more book giveaway for this week on Friday, so check back here on the […]
Robert writes- This last weekend the whole family flew on Space Adventure’s G-Force One (just featured last night on Mythbusters). Being science nuts, we spent some time thinking up experiments to do in microgravity, and ended up testing the Diet Coke & Mentos reaction. We hacked a camera port and mount into a portable glove […]
“Brainloop” is an interactive platform for performance which uses a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) that allows a performer to operate devices by imagining specific motor commands. The goal is to virtually navigate around Google Earth by using the BCI. Interesting concept, although we wonder if it’s really that much easier than doing it the old […]
This art project, entitled “Tantalum Memorial – Residue”, by England-based Graham Harwood, Richard Wright, and Matsuko Yokokoji, is a telephony-based memorial to the people who have died as a result of the tantalum wars in the Congo.The installation is built from the remnants of an old electro-mechanical 1938 Strowger telephone exchange found in an old […]
Rainwater harvesting’s kind of a no-brainer: when you start looking into it, capturing free water from the sky tends to creep onto your project list. (Image from Austin Water) Here are some Instructables to help you get started on basic systems: Starting with one 55-gallon barrel, and tying in another Getting fancier by going multi-tiered […]
I really like this project, although I immediately thought it should be called “Pac Man Portable” or PMP. This portable took around two weeks to build. I left it with out sound support because the sounds that the namco “arcade pcb on a chip” produces aren’t as good as the original games. The case is […]
