Today I’m at MIT visiting the Media Lab’s High-Low Tech (HLT) group, headed up by Leah Buechley. I’m hanging out with her and her grad students Hannah Perner-Wilson, David Mellis, and Emily Lovell, as well as e-textile education maven Kate Hartman. More later this week including video, but for now check out mine and Kate’s […]
Cheryl Sleboda wrote in with her awesome project: I just wanted to drop a line to say thanks for the tutorials and info on Craft about LEDs and soft circuitry. I got a Make Conductive Booster Pack and used some blue LEDs to add to a mini quilt I made depicting a “cute” taningia danae […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Rob Cruickshank repurposed the spherical printhead from an old IBM Selectric typewriter for use in a new gallery installation. Under strobed illumination, the Selectric’s ‘typeball‘ certainly is hypnotic – beautiful, in a sort of William S. Burroughs way. Rob’s kinetic sculpture will be on viewable at Toronto’s Fly Gallery until […]
No, they haven’t been photoshopped. Brody S. made this awesome black-and-white Santa suit for San Francisco Santa Con 2009. [via Dude Craft]
Mara of Klieo’s Belly shares a pattern and instructions for taking store-bought kitchen towels and adding a hand tab top to them for easy affixing to the stove door handle.
Rediscovering a gorgeous, short-lived Victorian-era style of letterpress printing.
10 Sci-Fi Weapons that actually exist @ Wired’s Danger Room… Sure, the gear may look like it came straight out of Avatar or Battlestar Galactica. But all of the laser weapons, robots, sonic blasters and puke rays pictured here are real. Some of these weapons have already found their way onto the battlefield. If the […]
