Its eyes blink with data transfer. Spotted first on my Sunday scroll through the CRAFT Flickr pool. Image/video after the jump to protect delicate sensibilities. As Mark Frauenfelder, Editor-in-chief of MAKE, wrote in 2006 about a similar project: Taxidermy is an ancient craft but contemporary concerns about using animals to make things are worthy of […]
Yesterday we featured the craft space of Jennifer Perkins of Naughty Secretary Club, and today we get to take a peek at her crafty mom, Fredda’s, creative space. I fell in love with Fredda’s craft cottage last fall, and now we get to have a closer look! See more pictures and hear about her space […]
Wow, this embedded LED coat by Wendy Legro is simply stunning. I love the origami-style tucks and folds. I wish there were more information and process photos! [via Fashioning Technology]
Artist Nick Gentry creates stunningly beautiful artwork that incorporates discarded computer disks, video cassettes and other “obsolete” media storage items. Each floppy disk used in the paintings has a history and story of its own. It represents the increasing pace of the modern life cycle, where objects are created, used and disposed of quicker than […]
The Experimenter iPhone app is chock full of timeless backyard science experiments. Sure, you could troll YouTube and find similar material, but the folks at Cramzy have done all the tedious work for you. And it’s nice to have everything in one simple interface.
From the MAKE Flickr pool Rob Cruickshank shares this tip for easily creating an evenly spaced jeweling pattern on metal – Inspired by the article in MAKE: #19, and needing to make an ugly piece of brass pretty in a hurry, I hit upon the idea of using perfboard as a jig for jewelling. (Also […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Osamu Iwasaki used a Lilypad Arduino + servo motor to create the Kinetic Quilt – an unusually lively bedspread. Hmmm … didn’t this little guy make an appearance in one of the Harry Potter flicks? … or maybe Poltergeist?
