Traveling woodworking shop tours schools
Let’s bring back the traveling woodworking shop tour, Popular Mechanics – 1938.
Year: 2008
“C3 Loops” rocks the touchscreen world
“C3 Loops” by Swedish researcher Rikard Lindell is a single-point touch screen that allows users to navigate around a virtual plane playing audio and video clips. Check out the video to watch the interface in action running on a Macbook. Rikard Lindell via Pete’s Sonic Art Research
Reader Input
Tales of hardware stores, wind generators, and pine derby cars.
Blythe-sized Creepy Knitted Ski Masks
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: I think most crafters have seen those creepy knitted ski masks by now, but have you seen one miniaturized for a Blythe doll? No? FiddybobiddyBiddy to the rescue!
Giant pinata takes a wrecking ball to open it
This might just be the world’s largest pinata. Measuring in at 28.5 meters long, 7.2 meters wide, 18 meters tall, and filled with 8.000 pounds of assorted candy, this “Trojan Horse” pinata took a wrecking ball to crack open. We wonder what the sugar rush would be like from eating all of that candy at […]
Soil lamp burns LEDs and wants to be a plant
This “Soil Lamp” by Marieke Staps is made of mud and lights an LED through the natural metabolism of the biological organisms contained within it. We’ve seen fruit powering electronics before, but building it into something that resembles a commercial product is still pretty far off. Soil Lamp via Next Nature
Modern cat house
Michelle @ CRAFT points us to Leo Kempf, who writes: I made this house for my cat, Olive. She enters through a door in the bottom side and then ascends a ramp, which boosts her to the upper level. The front wall is plexi-glass, the floor is 2.5 inch thick old sheepskin rug, and my […]
