Dog Bus cargo bike
Portlander Drew Devereux scratch-built this swell cargo bike so his canine pal, Sadie, could come along on rides.
Month: January 2011
Kinect with Scratch
Kinect hacker Stephen Howell has been hard at work producing a number of short demonstrations showing the possibilities of using the Scratch visual programming language with a Microsoft Kinect controller. How-to and examples are available on his site.
Teaching kids to steal cars at Machine Project
My friend Mark Frauenfelder and I took our kids to a class on car theft this weekend. Part of Machine Project‘s new series entitled Good People Doing Bad Things, it was absolutely wonderful. Instructors Tom Jennings and Jason Torchinsky should be either thrown in jail or made into heroes of the people. The class description: […]
Jabba the snowman
The bleak winter brings out the creativity in all of us, as evidenced by this snow rendition of Jabba the Hutt submitted by caffaknitted to the CRAFT Flickr Pool. Just one more Star Wars snow sculpture and I think we’re onto a trend.
June Gilbank’s 3D Punchneedle Embroidery Globe
Here’s another reason I love Twitter. Recently, SisterDiane tweeted the following: You didn’t miss @planetjune’s incredible punchneedle embroidery globe, did you? Well, sadly, I had missed it, but thanks to Diane’s tweet, I was able to check it out and read up on June’s work-in-progress posts about the project. She’s blown me away with her […]
Bandsaw + block of wood = Deer
Bandsaw + block of wood = Deer
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Gloves! by ?unknown user, Elegant Ammunition Earrings – Pyrite exploding from 9mm brass casings by Two Altered Visions Wooden Embroidered Raspberry Toast by The Spotless Loop and Trio of felt vessels by Clasheen.
