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.
Rybitski took a broken car stereo and (re)made a home version that uses a computer monitor that lights up, he writes – “My friend, Jeremy came to me with a car stereo and an idea. He wanted to use the car stereo as a normal stereo because motorized faceplate no longer worked. We settled on […]
The West Coast’s largest gathering of Art Cars will be happening soon in the next few weeks around the Bay Area from September 14-16. Check out the schedule to see exact location on dates. Link.
The Star Wars fairisle patterns by Sarah Bradberry are a perfect embellishment to any sweaters or scarves you’ll be knitting soon for fall. Link.
From the Knitty archives, here’s a fun way to dye your own yarn with Kool-Aid (yes that’s right). Kool-Aid dyeing works only on animal fibers: wool, mohair, and alpaca. It doesn’t work on cotton or synthetics, though, so use pure wool yarn for best results. Link.
Here you go, control Winamp with a Nintendo DS over Wi-Fi (source code included) – [via] – Link. Related: Tons of Winamp projects and articles- Link. DS projects, hacks, mods and homebrew – Link.
Barry @ HeadFuzz writes – “This project details the steps to build your own Open Source (musical) keyboard which connects to a computer via USB and sends MIDI signals. This is achieved using an AN2131 development board. The AN2131 is now discontinued, so development boards can be bought cheaply on eBay. Alternatively you could use […]
Here’s a ginormous gallery of old cassette tapes [via] – Link. Related: Cassette Jam ’05 (older post / link not active) – Link. Analog adio tape cassette nostalgia- Link.
