Our finely wired friends at Parallax have teamed up with EETimes and Innovative Generation to create a holiday contest centered on LEDs. The purpose of the contest is to “inspire middle-school and high-school students to work with microcontrollers and electronic components to create their own LED holiday projects. The contest is open to students aged […]
We love John Park, we really do, but as David Letterman likes to say: “That boy ain’t hooked up right.” Or, at least he wasn’t until he came up with this ingenious little button for triggering his camera while doing project photography for our Dremel Around the Maker Workshop series. He writes: I pulled apart […]
This year I am decorating my home for the winter by adding touches of rich metallics everywhere. The gleam of gold warms my cottage and the sparkle of silver fits with my modern aesthetics. To keep things sophisticated, I chose a single motif — the humble pine cone. Each one was easily transformed into treasure […]
The Deep Sea Anglerfish from the Maker Shed has a carefully designed Blue LED “lure” protruding from its head. The LED light produces a mesmerizing blueish glow, masterfully catching the preying eye, and the electric circuitry on the back adds all the more wonder to this rare species. If Anglerfish aren’t your cup of tea, […]
Thank you to everyone who entered our CRAFT Halloween Contest in October. We had about 465 photos tagged “crafthallowcontest” in our CRAFT flickr pool. Everyone did such a great job it was hard for us judges to narrow down the final winners. So without further ado, here are our 2010 CRAFT Halloween Contest winners! Grand […]
What happens when you mix calligraphy and graffiti together? This! Via Lizz Linabury
Knithacker posted a link to an awesome radio amigurumi from flickr user, patribanez, this morning. As I was checking it out, I noticed her “related” link to this fantastic sewing machine amigurumi by the same artist. I love this combination of two awesome crafts in one project!
