Jaime Oliver’s “Silent Drum” uses a unique elastic membrane drum head as a sound controller. A camera reads the position/shape of the head as it’s deformed with the hands and then translates that into data that can trigger sound events. [Thanks, Alberto!] Silent Drum
Jessica of How About Orange shared a picture of a sweet straw wrapper rose that came on her drink at a Thai restaurant. Determined to figure out how to make one herself, she’s started trying based on a ribbon flower video from Instructables, but wasn’t very successful, so she put a call out to her […]
The Evil Mad Scientists created these awesome, dead-simple accent lights by dropping an LED clipped across a battery into a sea urchin shell from a beach shop. Windell describes the guts as a “throwie sans magnet.” I love the way these look. But I hereby pledge to dig in, with both heels, and resist the term “urchie” with all my power, unto my dying day.
MIT Student Develops $3 Cutting-Edge Healing Device, Field Tested in Haiti @ Fast Company… No one really knows why, but for an open wound, simply applying suction dramatically speeds healing times. (The theory is that the negative pressure draws bacteria out, and encourages circulation.) But for almost everyone, that treatment is out of reach–simply because […]
My mother still can’t believe this, but I love soup. As a child, I was an extremely picky eater and hated foods to mix, but now my favorite things to eat (and make) are stews, soups, risottos, and anything mixed with flavors tumbling together. I tend to think of soup as a winter food, but […]
Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, or download the m4v video. In this week’s CRAFT Video, I show you how to set up a hydroponic herb garden on my rooftop in Brooklyn. Hydroponic gardening uses water more efficiently than traditional soil gardening, and is also a lot less messy for urban apartment dwellers. It’s […]
If you’re participating in our awe-inspiring MAKE Robot Build contest, you should know that Steve Joiner and his sons Noah and Jamie have set the bar with their excellent coasterbot, HUL-10. (You may remember we posted a super-cute video showing Noah describing the various components of the bot.) Not only does HUL-10 do a great […]
