USB-powered page turner
This guitar player built a USB-powered pedal switch (with conductive fabric switches) for hands-free scrolling/paging while he’s playing guitar. USB Pedal Page Turner – Link
Year: 2008
Inside the Cuckoo Cabin
If reading about Made with Love by Hannah’s backyard silkscreening shack (a.k.a. the “Cuckoo Cabin”) in CRAFT: 06 got you curious about her work setup, you’ll be glad to know she’s posted some photos of the interior on her blog. (You can also see some of Robin Twomey’s outtakes from our CRAFT shoot here.) Link. […]
Braille glove
A wireless tactile communication device for the blind using finger braille – Tactile information transfer is a mapping problem. To simulate this mapping, we have developed a glove embedded with accelerometers, magnetometers, and a controller. When the glove operator taps Braille codes using his/her fingers, the controller maps them to ASCII codes. Conversely, when ASCII […]
Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century
I visited New Museum located @ 235 Bowery in NYC for an exhibit called “Unmonumental” – on Thursday nights you can avoid the $12 admission fee (free Thursdays!). There were a few interesting exhibits made from mostly “found” and urban objects, I liked the lock picks, button mattress, free speech zone fencing and the burning […]
RSI and Knitting
Jo writes in with a tip from the Just Call Me Ruby blog about how to avoid damage to your body from the repetitive actions of knitting and other crafts. She provides advice for stretches, tips on posture, and just good general info on RSI and why crafters should take special care to avoid it. […]
PIR camera
Here’s an interesting kit for a PIR sensor controlled camera. Though with only a 640×480 CMOS view, you may want a higher resolution to identify stealthy intruders – When the sensor detects movement in a room it will take a burst of 10 photos with the digital camera. Each photo is taken at 0.5sec interval. […]
Windmill flying apart
Ever wonder what it looks like when a windmill’s brakes fail? It’s NOT pretty (but it is pretty cool). The second vid shows it in dramatic slo-mo. Windmill/turbine going wild and finally breaking – [Thanks, Patti!] Link