Decoupage Wooden Coat Hanger
Give your wooden hangers a fresh new look with this napkin decoupage project!
Month: February 2015
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Need some crafty inspiration? Here are some of the cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week!
FAA Surprises Fliers with Release of Proposed Small-Drone Rules
Today, the FAA released its long-awaited proposed legislation for small drones, specifying a weight limit of 55 pounds and daytime-only, line-of sight use for the craft, among other requirements. As quadcopters and other small easy-to-fly, self-navigating aircraft have grown with incredible popularity in the past couple years, the community using them has been waiting for the […]
50+ Global Issues Makers Can Solve
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab—along with USAID’s Global Development Lab, The Lemelson Foundation, The Schmidt Family Foundation, Dalberg Global Development Advisors, The Good Company and OMG—has put together a list of challenges primed for Makers to solve. They call these “Top 50 Game-Changing Technologies for Defeating Global Poverty.” These are summarized in a 20-page list, and […]
Teachers, Stop Being Scared of Cellphones
Screens are everywhere these days, in the restaurants, on the subways, in front of our faces. The only ones we seem able to control are those little screens on our tablets and cellphones, but bring those things into a classroom and who is in control, the student or the teacher? In March, New York City […]
Nature-Inspired Animated 3D-Printed Sculptures
These gorgeous 3D printed forms created by John Edmark appear to morph when their rotation speed is synchronized to strobe flashes or a video camera’s frame rate. A lecturer in art & art history and in mechanical engineering design at Stanford, Edmark’s cellular and kinetic works are inspired by nature and math (which have more […]
How-To: DIY Coral-Inspired Paper Lamp
With so many low-temperature lightbulbs on the market right now, paper lamps are definitely on the rise in practicality and popularity, and they’re so much fun to DIY!
