Tonight the Bluebottle Art Gallery in Seattle is hosting an art opening reception for Tiny Repetitive Motions, a show featuring the amazing woolly art of our beloved miss Moxie and the sweet embroidery of Dana Robson. This collaborative display showcases work that “explores the intersection of craft and art, focusing on humanity and its collective […]
As I wrote about on Mother’s Day, my mom and I took a mosaic workshop together the day after Christmas. Biting off more than we could chew, we chose to do a 3-foot-diameter tabletop to fit onto a metal table stand I’d found at the dump. During the workshop we barely got the tiles laid […]
From 1976 to 1983, Popular Science magazine, along with the American Plywood Association, ran an annual plywood panel project design contest for its readership. Often the winning projects were items of furniture, but that was not a requirement. A potter’s kick wheel and a folding plywood boat are notable exceptions. The rules were simple: Apart […]
I love new takes on old classics, and this one definitely caught my eye at the Bazaar Bizarre at Maker Faire Bay Area a couple of weeks ago. Pictured above is Binary Winter’s Wise Robots design, a futuristic twist on the old Japanese proverb sanzaru. Binary Winter definitely has a style all their own. From […]
CRAFT reader Rachel Donegan tells us about her beautiful bug themed garden DIY wedding: My husband and I were married at a historic site with beautiful gardens in Newbury, NH and we had our hands (literally) in pretty much every part of the wedding. I picked out the flowers at the farmer’s market day of […]
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has a stellar article introducing you to serial communication with AVR microcontrollers. If you have a basic knowledge or Arduino and want to take it further, this is for you.
When Instructables user RocketScientist wanted a marimba to practice at home, instead of buying one (at 7K), he build his own DIY marimba. It’s an ambitious project, and he throws in a tutorial video for wrapping your own mallets while he’s at it. More marimbas: Flashlight beams make music on photo-electric marimba ABSOLUT MACHINES – […]
