The snap-together solar powered grasshopper kit teaches how solar energy can be used to generate electricity. It’s an easy to assemble electronics kit that’s great for first-time experimenters with little or no experience. Ages 10 and up.
I’ve been wanting to do something like this fabric rack in my craft space for a while. I keep thinking it would be a nice way to display some of my crazy stash, and that it would serve for great inspiration for future projects. I hadn’t quite figured out the easiest way to do it, […]
Evelyn Roth crocheted recycled TV station tape into this TV-and-body suit she called the Video Trap, which appears at about 4:00 in this video from the 70s. John Stone Davis, Evelyn’s husband, publishes videos of hers to his YouTube channel. [Thanks, Erica!] More: Knitted Interfaces for Technology
Via Hacked Gadgets, Martin Raynsford created this etch-a-sketch computer that uses the white control knobs to navigate instead of a mouse — he reused the X and Y axis rollers of a trackball, and you press down on a button in lieu of a mouse click.
I love the look of this stitching on greenery from Camilla of Family Chic. She gives some tips on choosing greenery that will stand up to stitching, and even suggests that you could press the leaves to create a special keepsake.
If you’ve got an old camera laying around and are looking for some fun, try taking off the lens and snap a few pictures through it with your smartphone. If you’ve got a particularly interesting lens, like from a Lomo or some other odd plastic camera, you might then want to glue it to a spare case like redditor linc90 has with a derelict iPhone 4 case.
This how-to from maker Ryan Mottau explains turning the ever popular binder clip into an adjustable vent mount for almost any smartphone out there.
