The neighborhood where I live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn has a really high concentration of crafty people and shops. I started visiting these people so I can share their stories and work with the readers of the Craft blog. Up first… Wendy Yang of Maiden Hong Kong. Maiden Hong Kong is a really cute store on […]
Andrew writes – A while back, Roo Reynolds posted about his experiments with Reactivision. Reactivision is a really neat way of building whatรขโฌโขre called tangible user interfaces; itรขโฌโขs a bit of software which reads in video being captured by a webcam and tracks the position (and rotation) of special blobs called รขโฌลfiducial markersรขโฌย. In other […]
My favorite crafty blogger, Elsa Mora, made this dress to wear to an upcoming fancy event. She got the idea to make it, posted pictures of the fabric and less than two weeks later finished this amazing dress. Link.
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories write – After more than a year of painstaking directed research by our Experimental Foods Division, we have finally achieved one of our most important longstanding goals: the production of edible googly eyes. Like many other great inventions, it seems almost simple in retrospect, but in this write up we walk […]
ChrisP writes – This started as a project about 2 and a half years ago when I started drag racing motorcycles with a friend who has a bike shop. The original project started as how to make things more efficient, easier on the motorcycle and of course more constistant. Of the bikes we race the […]
A lot of our makers send in camping gear and equipment, while they’re not “MAKEs” there seems to be a lot of makers who camp – so when I saw this wearable sleeping bag I couldn’t help but put it on the blog, it’s awesome! – [via] Link.
iPhone hacker extraordinaire Erica Sadun made an application for the iPhone that will listen to music and identify it! She writes – Download a copy of the Listen beta. Itรขโฌโขs still *very* beta. Install it on your iPhone, get near music and run it. It will sample the music for 5 seconds and then attempt […]
