When Ashley from Lil Blue Boo was preparing to attend her first trunk show, she needed a good solution for adding labels to her line. She makes clothes for kids, so traditional (read: itchy) tags were not going cut it. She finally settled on making a set of mini silk screens so she could print […]
Back before cell phones had full color displays they used highly readable monochrome displays like this one, now available in the Maker Shed. These small (1.5″ diagonal) displays were originally used in old Nokia 5110/3310 cell phones. They feature a white backlight and 84×48 individual pixels so you can use them for graphics, text or bitmaps.
Artist Erik Kessels created an exhibit, on display at Foam in Amsterdam, that is a massive collection of every photo uploaded to Flickr in a 24-hour period. It’s stunning to see the volume of images as they literally pile up almost to the ceiling and pour through multiple rooms. Through the digitalisation of photography and […]
Congratulations to Joseph, winner of the latest Weekend Projects giveaway. You get a Maker’s Notebook and a Mintronics: Survival Pack (above). The Mintronics pack includes many of the components that we’ve been working with over the past few months in Weekend Projects. And with the notebook, Joseph will be able to jot down his project ideas in the years ahead.
Running through November 26th at the Netherlands Media Art Institute. The above work is “Identity Bureau, Synthetic off-the-shelf (OTS) British natural person” which plays to a loophole in British law that allows a person to have multiple legal identities. ‘The Art of Hacking‘ focuses on the artistic side of hacking. The artists in this exhibition […]
I once claimed that I would never post a cupcake recipe on CRAFT because I’ve never made cupcakes before and all I really know about them is which end goes in your mouth (and even that can get tricky). But it’s ok for me to post this beautiful Thanksgiving Plate Cakelettes recipe because these are […]
Quick, now: What are the two most fundamental measurements of the capacity of a metalworking lathe? If you said…
