A group of MIT students set out to invent a Braille labeler for the MIT IDEAS Competition. Along the way they seemed to grasp a few cornerstones of invention: learning from failures, knowing your customer base and pursuing your ideas.
I had the pleasure, along with my Handmade Detroit partner in crime Beth Nixon, to check out Knit Michigan 2010 this past weekend. This annual event raises money for local cancer charities. With more than 600 participants, an all-day knitting marathon, and $30,000 raised to help find a cure, this year’s Knit Michigan was a […]
I will be doing a call/chat live from Adafruit Industries “FutureCast: open-source hardware and MAKE-ing the future” Weds 2/11/2010 – Join Jerry Mchalski and me in a one hour conversation as we discuss topics such as open-source hardware, new hacker-spaces opening up, and the Fabber and Maker movements as they continue to develop in the […]
Erik Minnema made this really nice woodworking piece, called side by side. It’s pretty easy to build, all you need are a few pieces of wood and an inter-dimensional table saw.
From Leah Buechley’s photostream via the CRAFT Flickr pool, Leah shares: “on the steps of Shih Chien U, turn signals prototyped by me w/ parts from the taipei electronics markets & made by (awesome) Shih Chien University fashion students” in Taiwan. More: How-To: Make a Turn Signal Bike Jacket
CRAFT is celebrating love, glitter, and craftiness with the Crafty Chica Love Shrine Challenge. Preserve your memories and tell your love story by building a shrine that creatively reflects your personality and expresses your hopes and dreams.This type of project is all about personal self expression. I began by digging through my collections of postcards […]
Interesting Light: A Way to See the Wind…. This experimental site-specific installation illustrates alternative, sustainable ways of harnessing energy that will explore the power of the wind in the city, visualizing it as an ephemeral cloud of light. The installation is custom built, using 500 mini wind turbines to generate power, which illuminates hundreds of […]
