This semester at Parsons the New School for Design, I had the pleasure of teaching a group of inspired students (both undergrad and graduate) about DIY projects online. The students were interested in everything from electronics to crafts, and their final projects are tutorials across a very wide spectrum of topics. Here are the project highlights from the class, many of which have been posted on Make: Online and CRAFT.
Crafts, food, home decor:
- How-To: Use Templates on a Potter’s Wheel
- How-To: Purse with Feet
- Yarn Octopus Teaches Kids to Braid
- How-To: Mini Indoor Herb Garden
- How-To: “Plastic” from Expired Milk
- How-To: Kitchen Pegboard with iPad
- How-To: Fashionably Accessorize Your Insulin Pump
- How-To: BBQ with Uncle Pappy
- Grocery Bag from Old T-Shirt
- How-To: Turkish Borek
- Marilyn Monroe makeover
- Cocktail: Moscow Mule
- BBQ Broccoli with Uncle Pappy
- How-To: Under the Shelf Magnetic Spice Rack
Electronics, technology:
- Musical table plays melodies with Arduino
- How-To: Perfboard hackduino
- Censor a photo
- Making brickbreaker using Flex
- Make an explosion using Maya and Realflow
- Binary Arduino synthesizer
- Representing audio through vibration with Arduino
- Basic color correction with Shake
- How-To: Use a wirewrap tool
- How-To: Sound-dependant light-up Moog theremin hack
- How-To: RGB LED brooch
Great work, guys, I had such a great time in class with you!
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