MakeDo, now available in the Maker Shed, is a unique set of reusable connectors for creating things from the stuff around you. Reuse items like cardboard, plastic and fabric to create structures, costumes, furniture, and decorations. When you are done, just pull your creation apart and reuse the connectors to make something else.
This summer, my sister and I visited a great used office furniture store together, and I found a beautiful 80s Steelcase chair that had me swooning. I was a little intimidated, though, at the prospect of reupholstering it and ended up passing on it. Seeing this great makeover from Jessica of How About Orange has […]
Pittsburgh hackerspace HackPGH used leftover helium from their LEAD Balloon project to facilitate another project: the Aerial Ping Pong Drop. They filled biodegradable party balloons and launched origami butterflies and ping pong balls into the atmosphere. What for, you ask? They used Egg-Bots to write a URL on each ball, so that when it was […]
I met Ashley Gerst over the weekend at Maker Faire NYC and, when she told me that she’d made the unique shrimp cocktail scarf that she was wearing, I said, “Ok, I’m going to post that on the CRAFT blog next week,” and well, here we are. The images above are actually of a “Shrimp […]
Mollie at Wild Olive is celebrating coffee this week with all kinds of brew-related projects and inspiration. She’s offering up a set of very fun and free coffee embroidery patterns as part of the celebration. My personal favorite design is the commercial coffee pot. It makes me think of Flo on Alice, which I’m hoping […]
Among other whimsical items, Xylocopa Design fabricates unique musical instruments, such as this 5 stringed boxy fiddle. These creations were born from Michele’s practice in musical instrument repair and grew into the design of completely new instruments that she demonstrated for delighted visitors at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011.
A group from the Technical University of Denmark cobbled together a portable EEG using an Emotiv EPOC neuroheadset, a wireless dongle, and a Nokia N900 smartphone. Using custom software, the unit will render a real-time OpenGL representation of live data from the headset.
