Crocheted Receiving Blankets
These flannel receiving blankets, with a crocheted treatment, from the Purl Bee’s Laura’s Loop are gorgeous. I love how something so simple can become such a meaningful gift. More Around the Corner Crochet Borders
Year: 2012
Working with Horn: Resources at UK’s MoDiP
That’s Museom of Design in Plastics, and their online collections are really outstanding. While there is some good online info on hornworking in the hobby community (especially the SCA), it’s mostly text with simple line art. I couldn’t find much photography of real artifacts and tools before stumbling on MoDiP’s online Nature’s plastic exhibit.
How-To: Duct Tape Hair Bow
It’s Friday, and I think you should celebrate the start of the weekend by making something fun with duct tape! Need a project? Check out this snazzy duct tape hair bow from Laurie at Tip Junkie! After seeing her duct tape coffee cup sleeves, I can totally see fellow CRAFT writer Lish rocking one of […]
Making Things See: 3D Vision with Kinect, Processing, Arduino, and MakerBot
Microsoft’s Kinect is a fascinating piece of technology. It seems that every day a new, remarkable hack shows up using this device. Interested in using the Kinect in your own projects? Check out Making Things See, available in the Maker Shed!
Hackerspace Happenings: Spring Classes at TX/RX
Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at @johnbaichtal and I’ll post it. Also feel free to subscribe to my hackerspaces Twitter list. Hackerspace Happenings runs weekly(ish). Spring Classes at Houston’s TX/RX Labs Our lineup of informative, innovative, hands-on classes is geared towards […]
Glitch Textiles
Apparenty glitches are the new stitches, because artist Phillip Stearns made this series of Glitch Textiles from images he took with a broken digital camera, and they look totally amazing. These blankets are layered with irony: a digital photographic image, made with an intentionally broken (rewired) camera, is mechanically woven or knit into a photoblanket, […]
Makers at World Wide Rome
I’m in Rome at a gathering of makers, organized to promote how Italy can develop and contribute to the maker movement. Chris Anderson and Massimo Banzi presented this morning, and I’ll be up in the afternoon. Riccardo Luna is the host and conference organizer of World Wide Rome – the Makers Edition. The conference is […]