World Gross Domestic Product — fabricated in wood via Beyond the Beyond. Beech wood, poplar plywood; 40 × 60 × 20 cm;The data sculpture Fundament shows the allocation of the world’s gross domestic product in comparison to the worldwide derivatives volume. The statistical data was aquired from the CIA World Factbook and the International Monetary Fund. The sculpture […]
Whether you’re a fan of the kiddie show Yo Gabba Gabba! or not, this crocheted version of the robot character Plex is one attractive piece of amigurumi fun! Great work from Craftster user Alliecat30. Related: • Yo Gabba Gabba Cupcakes • Yo Gabba Gabba Needle Felts • Garth Johnson’s “Muno” Shirt
Swissmiss has a project that you can download, cut out, add a tea light to create a Swiss alpenglow (a reddish glow seen near sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains).
Noah points out this article over @ bunnie’s blog, showing some pretty smooth FPS gaming on the open-source squeezable – xobs, a developer at chumby, showed me one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while on a chumby: a full port of Quake. He got the whole thing running under SDL and hacked […]
I wish I could go to this. Check out this panel at the New Museum this Friday: CRAFT HACKERS Rhizome.org panel discussion Fri, Dec 12, 2008 | 7:30 PM New Museum of Contemporary Art Craft Hackers is a panel discussion among artists who use crafting techniques to explore high-tech culture and the relationship between needlework […]
Yury Gitman teaches a class about incorporating electronics into toys, he calls it “Making Toys: Playful Experience Design Through Interactive and Wireless Techniques.” This semester they’re having a public open house to showcase (and play with) the toys they’ve created during the course. There’s RFID, Arduino, and included source code. If you’re in New York, […]
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr Pool: Karmology Clinic’s Japanese craft book-inspired pom-pom ornaments.
