Year: 2009

CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup

Here are some finds this week from the CRAFT Flickr pool: Novy made this crochet guillotine. Amanda Siska and her husband in Portland, OR etched this glassware with mustaches so you look like you have one when you drink from it! Matthew Nicholson, a designer in the UK, made this card and paper installation. Alicia […]

Weekly CRAFT recap

Weekly CRAFT recap

Here are some of my favorite posts from the CRAFT blog this week: Fabric Klein Bottle Cross-Stitch Your Favorite Physicist Checkin In: Green Girl Wendy Tremayne Scissor Buddha And this week’s CRAFT Video is Paper Making with Lisa Jacobs: At the last Phoenix DIY meeting, Lisa Jacobs ran a paper making workshop. We learned how […]

Pool Racing with Pololu

This Pool Racer project is built on the 3pi. The Pololu 3pi robot is a complete, high-performance mobile platform featuring two micro metal gearmotors, five reflectance sensors, an 8×2 character LCD, a buzzer, and three user pushbuttons, all connected to a C-programmable ATmega168 microcontroller. Capable of speeds exceeding 3 feet per second, 3pi is a […]

Coraline 3D printing

Coraline 3D printing

Brief, but interesting article about the rapid prototyping technology used in the new stop-motion feature film Coraline. The Objet RP Polyjet technology uses photopolymer resin that is housed in cartridges and sprayed down in extremely thin 16 micron layers, four times thinner than the average human hair. As it’s sprayed down in liquid form, UV […]