Crafty Events
A weekly roundup of craft fairs and a call for vendors.
Year: 2011
Timelapse of Ferrous Toner Particles
Compressed is Kim Pimmel‘s “series of choreographed time-lapse shorts that explore the beauty of the forces of nature that surround us.” The above movie is #1. Ferrous printer toner particles floating on the surface of water are attracted by a magnet and align to the invisible magnetic field around them. The patterns and motions that […]
Custom EBike Boasts 76 Kilometers Per Hour, 210 Per Charge
A commenter on last week’s electric bike round-up pointed me to this drool-inducing 2008 build from one “Doctorbass,” of Quebec. I am especially impressed by the custom-built battery pack.
Recipe: Madeira Cake
Madeira cake is a light cake that you can make well in advance of a picnic or tea party. It has a wonderful texture, and a rich flavor that is hard to beat.
Let’s Create LIVE! from iLoveToCreate on Thursday
Tomorrow (Thursday) will be the debut of iLoveToCreate‘s new live online craft show called Let’s Create Live. From 9am-11am PST crafters from anywhere around the world can visit www.ustream.tv/channel/ilovetocreate and join the live, virtual party that will include craft tutorials, prize giveaways, tips and techniques and more. The six award-winning celebrity designers are Traci Bautista […]
Digital Puppeteering With Moviesandbox
Friedrich Kirchner has made a digital puppeteering tool for use with his open source animation tool Moviesandbox which allows you to interface an Arduino with homemade soft circuit puppets to create live digital puppet shows. This video shows some simple sock puppets outfitted with Hannah Perner-Wilson’s neoprene bend sensors controlling a couple of on-screen fish actors through an […]
At-Home Chocolate Tree
I love Sarah James, and let me tell you why. On Monday I posted about Del Posto restaurant’s decadent chocolate tree made by pouring tempered chocolate into a vat of ice cubes.