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.
I love paper! The prints and patterns that adorn the paper from American Crafts are really great. Check out the Bookshelf paper named after famous authors and the Sixth Avenue line named after NY places. Perfect for making your own cards or embellishments. They also make ribbon too. [ via ] Link.
MAKE pal Peter Kirn @ Create Digital Motion (who also wrote a great MIDI primer in MAKE 07) is teaching a class in NYC, he writes – “I’ll be teaching a class on using the free Mac developer tool Quartz Composer to build DIY projects and interactive visual art driven by music, sound, and video. […]
Here’s a great easy project on making a window valance from Randi’s “I Have to Say” blog. From Randi, “Valances are an inexpensive and easy way to cover a window and add color to a room. I made some for my craft room and, including the curtain rod, they only cost me $12.00 and an […]
Here’s a DIY MOD player you can build (MOD is sorta like a MP3, popular in the 80’s with Amiga computers) – “TRAXMOD is a small digital audio player using the Philips LPC2103 ARM7TDMI-S high speed microcontroller chip (prior versions were based on Microchip dsPIC DSPs). Currently, the ARM port can play raw wave audio […]
Aw man, this TEAC GF-350 Turntable/CD-Recorder/Radio is almost awesome – it’s a record player that can record to CD, but according to the review it has some wonky DRM (Serial Copy Management System) on the CDs, requires “special” CDs, doesn’t have audio outputs and doesn’t seem to automatically make tracks so well — that’s too […]
Kristen Rask is a crafter and owner of Schmancy a cool toy store in Seattle. It also doubles up as a gallery space for the upcoming October 6 – Nov 2 show, Plush You. Plush You has garnered so much attention that Kristen recently just signed a book deal, so look for a Plush You […]
Victor writes – “Public Broadcast Cart is a shopping cart outfitted with a dynamic microphone, a mixer, an amplifier, six speakers, a miniFM transmitter and a laptop with a wireless card. The audio captured by the microphone on the cart is fed through the mixer to three different broadcast sources.” – Link. More: Build your […]
