The Flux Factory, a not-for-profit arts organization in Long Island City is having a night of “performances, music, free booze, and excellent people.” Go check out some really great artists; there will be limited-edition work for sale by Brandstifter, Bread & Butter Collective, Andrea Dezso, Kerry Downey, Heather Jones, Aya Kakeda, Miwa Koizumi, Simone Meltesen, […]
I always enjoy seeing all the crafty ingenuity out on the internets, and this holiday season is no exception. I’ve been too busy here at work to do any Christmas or wintery crafts yet myself, but I’m gathering links galore to inspire my family and me starting this weekend when things begin to calm down. […]
David Chatting built this Arduino Eye Shield so that he could hook up an analog video camera to his Arduino. It sounds pretty crazy, however by utilizing an LM1881 video sync separator chip and some comparators, he was able to use the Arduino to capture at least 8 1-bit monochrome values from each line of video data.
Mollie of Wild Olive shares this gem from her childhood. It’s a crewel stocking, stitched lovingly by her mother for her first Christmas back in 1979. I still have a stocking that my aunt made for me when I was a kid. It’s covered in felt cutouts and is adorned with loads of sequins and […]
From the CRAFT Flickr pool, Peggy Dembicer made this beaded Monopoly Chance card containing 12,300 seed beads.
Never in my life could I imagine the job that came from using the words Star Trek Pez LED menorah all together in one title. Joyce and Kaufman made this kitchy creation using one of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories delux LED menorah kits. Just terrific!
From the MAKE Flickr pool Jenine.net shared this pic of her unique copper-palmed persistence of vision box – I’m making a “Persistence of Vision” toy, which will show a programmed message in eight red light- emitting diodes. In the Fab Lab we have a roll of copper foil backed with a conductive adhesive. I used […]
