Recently, Phillip over at MAKE blogged some great images from the LIFE photo archive hosted through Google. I was completely smitten – vintage photographs/advertisements are one of my all-time favorite things to peruse. I decided to browse the LIFE archive for craft-related images, and was in vintage picture paradise. Here are a few of my […]
The Purl Bee shows us how to create this colorful and modern-looking embroidered advent calendar using wool felt.
You can connect to the Wii remote over bluetooth or use an Arduino to send peripheral data to the Wiimote, but what if you want to interface directly with the Wiimote’s IR camera? The sensor is particularly good at tracking coordinates for 1 to 4 points—it could be a simple way to add sophisticated tracking […]
Make your own hot sauce… via Lifehacker. Makers, have a recipe? Post up in the comments! Kits For The Holidays (hot sauce) – MAKE 04.
Cyber writes – Some enterprising folks over at Google have collaborated via Google Documents to create holiday art using cells in a spreadsheet as the pixels. A time delay video was taken and is available over at YouTube and the result is pretty spectacular. More info on how they did this is available behind the […]
Photographer Robbie Cooper shows just how focused young video-game players can be… NYTimes video.
It’s always interesting to see what the mainstream media makes of the new crop of crafters out there, so I thought I’d share today’s article from the LA Times with you all. It covers the success of last weekend’s craft fair Felt Club (full disclosure: I’m the founder) and the rise of DIY in today’s […]
