This appears to be a “satellite kit” for $8k via /. Planet Earth has entered the age of the Personal Satellite with the introduction of Interorbital’s TubeSat Personal Satellite (PS) Kit. The new IOS TubeSat PS Kit is the low-cost alternative to the CubeSat. It has three-quarters of the mass (0.75-kg) and volume of a […]
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Plush Angler Fish by FeltedChicken, Jolly Roger Hat for Babies by Uyek, Sheree’s alchemy’s sewing students (so cute), and marshmallow art by chiccookiekits.
Ancientwood, Ltd., is a US company that imports 50,000-year-old Kauri logs that have been preserved for millennia in peat bogs under New Zealand’s northern island. Besides its value as a conversation piece, ancient Kauri is mined, rather than logged, and no live trees are killed in the process. Kauri trees (Agathis spp.) thrive in New […]
German chemical giant BASF pioneered the technology to colorize the traditionally blah-colored world of manufactured wood products like medium-density fiberboard (MDF). Besides requiring no or little finishing, through-color MDF will not betray scrapes or scratches like painted material. It has been available in Europe for awhile now, but only relatively recently in the US through […]
Mike Firth is a hobby glassblower in Dallas, Texas. His site includes a great page on a variety of techniques that can be applied to reclaimed glass bottles, including several methods of cutting them. The site also describes more exotic bottle-working techniques like slumping, stretching, drilling, and blowing out.
Lee Meredith does a great roundup of pet projects from all around the craft universe including ones from our recent We
This week on CRAFT we saw: How-To: Homemade Sidewalk Chalk CRAFT Video: Two Cat Toys Book Review: Digital Textile Design by Melanie Bowles and Ceri Isaac Winners of the Singer & CRAFT Swimsuit Cover-Up Contest How-To: Catnip Castle
