Those near Berkeley should make time tomorrow for an excellent speech: Leah Buechley, MIT Media Lab New Craft – A Marriage of High and Low Tech Wednesday December 3 6:00 – 7:30 pm BCNM Commons* UC Berkeley People knit scarves, build furniture, sew clothing, and solder radios together in their homes and garages. Diverse groups […]
Seattle’s Fusion Beads has some great online tutorials – I really like these little bead tree decorations.
Our pal Bonnie Burton has a piece on StarWars.com on how to “Make Your Own Droidel Dreidel,” a paper-crafted dreidel that looks like R2-D2. I wonder how you say “Happy Chanukah” in Droidspeak? Droidel, Droidel, Droidel
This is a wonderful confluence of two personal favorites: a ShareBrained Chronulator meter clock kit, and the artistic vision of clockmaker Roger Wood. I don’t know if this one is for sale or already spoken for. Side note on the Chronulator kit: they’ve been sold out for a while now, but Jared is hard at […]
The “Solar Paper Latern” is made from 36 miniature solar panels with each connected up to an electroluminescent diode. The resulting light can remain on indefinitely, as long as the panels are near a spot of strong sun exposure. Solar Paper Lantern by Damien 0’Sullivan @ Saint Etienne Design Triennial
Here’s a simple place-setting solution for upcoming holiday meals – make a place card pocket from this print-at-home free PDF from BlueArgyle. When you fold it up, you can hide a small surprise for your guests inside. After the holidays are over, I’m sure this would be great for large dinner parties of any celebratory […]
A new update to the DS Music Interface Software project includes support for high-res data messages in the OSC format – OSC is an emerging standard for exchanging music control signals that is much more flexible and modern than MIDI. For example, OSC can directly communicate via network, so the PC-side DSMI server is not […]
