Year: 2008

CRAFT: 06 The Play issue

CRAFT: 06 The Play issue

Our sibling magazine, CRAFT has a new issue. The theme is “Play” – here’s a quick video tour of some of the projects Natalie (Senior editor @ CRAFT) picked out… Link. Related: CRAFT 06 on newsstands – Link. Subscribe to CRAFT – Link. And here are my favorite things spotted in CRAFT – a metal […]

HOW TO – Make a “Witness camera”

HOW TO – Make a “Witness camera”

Alberto writes – The Witness Camera is an automated, self-recording surveillance camera, that uses a gigabyte-class flash card as recording media. I designed the Witnesscam because available surveillance solutions were too expensive or impractical for home use. I built the system from a VGA CMOS colour camera, a passive-infrared (PIR) movement sensor, an ATmega32 processor, […]

Chinese New Year Crafts

Today is Chinese New Year! Welcome the Year of the Rat (which happens to be my sign). Jess at How About Orange points to the these cool downloads at HP for Chinese New Year crafts where you can print out and make paper lanterns like the lotus flower above, iron on Chinese zodiac animals, fortune […]

Chinese New Year crafts

Chinese New Year crafts

Nat writes – Today is Chinese New Year! Welcome the Year of the Rat (which happens to be my sign). Jess at How About Orange points to the these cool downloads at HP for Chinese New Year crafts where you can print out and make paper lanterns like the lotus flower above, iron on Chinese […]