Surveillance lamp
Gorgeous “surveillance lamp” by Per Emanuelsson and Bastian Bischoff.
Year: 2008
Business card chem stencil
Another good item for the ever-growing “How to make a memorable business card” category: Sean writes – I work part time as an organic chemistry tutor. I designed this laser-cut business card to include a drawing template to help my students with one of the most difficult diagrams they must master in o-chem. Both the […]
Cat bag / Cuddle bag
This chic pet-substitute responds to touch with pulsing blue LED ‘eyes’ and a purring effect courtesy of Lilypad vibe boards. Two Lilypad Arduinos run the animal simualtion and the touch contact is implemented via conductive fabric layers – For this, I made two layers of fabric. One with three pieces conductive fabric that goes out […]
Arthur C Clarke – “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”
Arthur C Clarke, science fiction author and inspiration to many makers just passed away – British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90. Born in Somerset, he came to fame in 1968 when a short story The Sentinel was made into the film 2001: A […]
Cut Out + Keep CRAFT Contest
Our friends at Cut Out + Keep are helping to celebrate the current Play issue for CRAFT: 06 with a fun contest! Just enter your project on the Cut Out + Keep site with your projects that fits the play theme! The winner will get CRAFT:06 and a cool CRAFT Tee! Good luck!
Paper cameras – old and new
In 1970’s Communist Czechoslovakia, the state-run magazine ABCs for Young Technicians and Natural Scientists published a cut-out paper camera called the Dirkon. Looking very much like an old Nikon, the little camera is essentially a simple pin hole design, dressed up to look like its SLR cousin. Fast forward to 2000’s Capitalist USA and you’ll […]
Arduino Etch-A-Sketch clock
Jason @ Hackszine writes: Check out Angela Yuan’s Etch-A-Scetch Clock. An Arduino powers a few stepper motors that clear the screen once a minute and then draw the current time. It looks like there is a laptop that is sending commands, presumably time updates, to the Arduino via processing. Her site is a little scant […]