Month: July 2010

Indoor snowstorm

Indoor snowstorm

An installation by Tokujin Yoshioka, whom some may remember for growing a crystal chair back in 2008, for the Mori Art Museum’s ongoing Sensing Nature exhibit. Snow is 15 meters wide and contains hundreds of kilograms of white down which is randomly blown around at intervals by hidden fans. [via Dude Craft]

Embroidered Digital Commons

Embroidered Digital Commons is a participatory artwork facilitated by Ele Carpenter. You can sign up to embroider a patch of text for display at the AND Festival in Manchester UK this coming October: The Embroidered Digital Commons is a collectively stitched version of the Raqs Media Collective’s text ‘A Concise lexicon of / for the […]

Building the first Open Source (inexpensive) Scanning-Tunneling Electron Microscope (STM)

When people ask “what’s next” for Open Source Hardware, I think projects like this will be the direction some of the makers will head – Check out Sacha De’Angeli’s project, the first open source STM – Building the first Open Source (inexpensive) Scanning-Tunneling Electron Microscope (STM) – With just enough electronics knowledge to be dangerous […]

Summer CRAFT Camp Roundup

This summer, CRAFT has reinstated our popular Summer Camp series, and we’ve continued to share some very fun projects. We thought we’d take a look back at some of our favorite Summer Camp CRAFT projects from last year in case you’re itchin’ for even more things to do this summer with your kids. These chocolate […]

Adorable Micro Cars

Adorable Micro Cars

Meep meep! These cars are cute! Be sure to check out the massive gallery! As today’s economy continues to shake and stagger, most people find themselves in the “savings” and “fuel efficiency” mode when it comes to cars – and so the idea of small, easy to park and to maintain micro cars remains popular. […]