David Leadbeater created a service that distributes Wikipedia entries over DNS using TXT records. Simply looking up a TXT record for any subdomain of his service will pull a summary of the Wikipedia entry for the title of the same name. I had written some code to take wikipedia articles and summarise them. I wanted […]
After a long day on Tatooine fighting off Sandpeople and haggling over the price of power converters, Obi-Wan and Luke Skywalker walk into a droid… BaR2D2 is a radio-controlled, mobile bar that features a motorized beer elevator, motorized ice/mixer drawer, six-bottle shot dispenser, and sound activated neon lighting. The robot is driveable so you can […]
Every year, Jek‘s talented husband Jeff makes her a new sock monkey. In past years he’s done a Sock Monkey de Willendorf, a Buddha Monkey, and a Sock Monkey de Milo. This year he’s done the Saras Sock Vati, representing the Hindu goddess of the arts, Sarasvati.
Make: television debuted 1/3/2009 7am PST online and on public television (broadcast / cable tv). The series encourages everyone to invent, revent, recycle, upcycle, and act up. Based on the popular Make magazine, each half-hour episode hopes to inspire viewers to think, create, and, well, make. Each episode can be viewed or downloaded DRM-free, in […]
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Vintage-Style Valentine Banner Nan Through the Zillij Papercraft Security Envelope Pendants Half Life Scarf
Asteronimo writes about SliceModeler for Sketchup: Based on TIG‘s Slicer script I wrote a plugin that slices a solid 3d model along 2 axes, f.i. an X- and a Z-axis. You can enter separate parameters for each axis. After the slices have been created it calculates the slots for each intersection which allow the cross […]
I love the idea of starting the new year off with a meaningful – and educational – craft project. And since I’m partial to embroidery, this Happy New Year Sampler from Nordic Craft caught my eye. I love that the simple lines leave opportunity to work in special new stitches as you learn them.
