Tobias Muthesius of Paris, France sent in this installation by French interactive designers Lab212 designed for Morocco’s FICAM animation festival. It was hard for me to scrounge up technical details but it looks like an Arduino and XBee were involved.
Meredith Scheff shows off her LED compass skirt at Maker Faire Bay Area 2010 in this week’s CRAFT Video. Meredith sells a solderless “Star Board” soft circuit kit based on her sew-through circuits technique, which includes everything you need to get started on a project like this. Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, watch […]
Re-writable solid state memory may be the best thing since diced wafers, allowing us to re-program our microcontrollers and store tons of music on our cell phones, but it isn’t without it’s faults.
Right now I am sore and cranky. Brookelynn + Sore + Cranky = Horrible Whining. I am currently whining for someone to make me this adorably soothing stuffed animal neck pillow. It’s an easy recycling project with just the right ammount of easy sewing. I think it would fix everything!
I’ve been following Barcelona maker Abraham Neddermann’s Dicecreator blog for a while. True to the blog’s name, he dabbles in creating his own tabletop gaming dice, machining them out of aluminum or printing on blank dice. This time he’s outdone himself, building a laser engraver out of junk parks, a couple of stepper motor control […]
I was flipping through a copy of San Francisco Kitchens by Paumes last night and became so inspired I started drawing a new plan of what our kitchen could be like someday … with actual cabinets! and not just some boxes screwed to the wall at various angles. Then I started doodling the various kitchen […]
I have to say, for the record, that those are way smaller than any actual traffic cone I’ve ever seen, and are far, far too clean to have ever seen any real use on a street. I’m pretty sure reusing real traffic cones would result in a lamp that was both way too big and way, way too beat up to make good-looking furniture. Still, cool-looking lamp, and a straightforward re-make.
