From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
Randofo writes – “Some time ago my girlfriend asked me if I would make her one of those telephone microphones like the kind that all of those hipster bands have. So, I of course told her I would. Much time passed… and then I made this. This is designed to work with the old-style handsets […]
Lindsey of Linques Design Speaks headed over to Home Depot and found the hardware aisle to be an inspiration for her jewelry. Here is her submission for Whip Up’s Whiplash Alt Craft contest, where she’s made a necklace out of silver-colored washers and garnets. Link.
Here’s a video of an amazing 19th Century wooden automaton that writes kanji on a sheet of paper, at the end you can see how it works… – [via]
AutoStitch looks pretty incredible, it can automatically stitch your photos together, there’s a free demo to try out too (Windows) – “Autostitch is the world’s first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever, Autostitch is a breakthrough technology for panoramic photography, VR and visualisation applications. This […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Funnypolynomial made this paper globe as a gift delivery accoutrament – “Kathy likes globes, and I wanted a unique gift-delivery mechanism, so I printed/cut/folded/glued a rhombicuboctahedron from here … I left the top square unglued so it would open up to reveal the gift (earrings). “ – Link. Related: Map […]
For $16, this could be really useful for a lot of projects… A robot hand – “The various gears and levers inside this clear plastic hand interact to move the fingers as if they are playing one of six classic piano pieces; as the digits play selections from Beethoven’s “Fifth Symphony”, Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer,” […]
We all know how fragile needlethreaders are, why not transform them into cute earrings? That’s just what crafter Cat Morley did in this tutorial. Link.
