Year: 2010

Art from cut leaves

Art from cut leaves

Rachel @ CRAFT points us to these amazingly detailed cut leaves by Nature’s Art, complete with a step-by-step (PDF): Natural leaf carving is actual manual cutting and removal of a leaf’s surface to produce an art work on a leaf. The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully remove the surface […]

Amisha Gadani’s Blowfish Dress

Amisha Gadani’s Blowfish Dress

Amisha Gadani made this “Blowfish Dress,” a kinetic interactive outfit that inflates like a blowfish. While browsing through a book of marine images, I was inspired by the sudden and quite comical defense system of blowfish. I began to muse of ways in which humans could benefit from and appropriate these behaviors and so came […]

Passy-pass, a USB password storage device

Passy-pass, a USB password storage device

Minneapolis hacker sigFLUP designed this cool box for managing her passwords. This automatically stores generated and types all my usernames and passwords. It’s a pretty simple system. It’s a bitsy at89s5131 atmel 8051-ish microcontroller. This is a usb microcontroller and I’ve programmed it to look like a standard usb-keyboard. it has eeprom to store our […]

Amazing Cut Leaves Art

The detail and delicacy of these cut leaves from Nature’s Art is stunning. Natural leaf carving is actual manual cutting and removal of a leaf’s surface to produce an art work on a leaf. The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully remove the surface without cutting or removing the veins. […]