Audiobody hacks together music using DIYer-friendly electronics, which they describe in how-to videos — like these cool light tubes! How did we make our Color Changing, LED Light Tubes? In this video we show you exactly how we did it. The design is much simpler than you think. Try building one yourself and let us […]
Artist Rodrigo Torres has received some attention recently for his collages made from currency, but I’m also quite taken with these topographic sculptures made from collaged photographs.
This concept from designers Ami Drach and Dov Ganchrow is called “+/- hot plate.” The plates are silkscreened with conductive inks to create circuit traces, in this case simple resistive heating elements arranged in artful patterns. If the traces will hold up to soldering…
These beaded crochet bracelets from Regina of Creative Kismet are beautiful, and super simple to make. Regina’s video tutorial walks you through making a bracelet with small and large beads, and finishing it off with a decorative button closure. Gorgeous! More: How-To: Chunky Link Ball Chain Friendship Bracelet @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Wrapped Bracelets @Craftzine.com blog […]
This video is a vey basic introduction to the Arduino. So if you have a friend or relative who has been asking “what’s an Arduino?” You can point them here. They’ll get an overview of what it is and what’s possible with it.
Using a slightly modified Square mag stripe reader, an RCA MODEL SRT-403 Tape Recorder, an iPod Touch, and requisite audio software, Evan Long got a modern digital media player to record and play back an obsolete paper reel-to-reel format from the late 1940s.
Dan Green’s work is sculpture and performance at the same time. He manipulates keyboards and phone cords and crab shells into costumes that are easily anthropomorphized. He is a passionate maker, and a passionate father.
