Craft & Design

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.

Homemade high speed drill

Aaron has a pretty intense looking drill, he writes – “High speed drill made from auto blower motor (10,000 RPM). No need to center punch. Works great on aluminum sheet. Better than any other drills I’ve tried.” [via] – Link. On a related note, Kevin Kelly has a great new site called “Street Use” with […]

Live motion 3D video camera

O’Reilly’s Radar has a brief write up of a “3D live motion video camera that uses LIDAR technology to get a range-finding for every pixel” – you could “scan” an area and put all the 3D data in to just about any application, wow! Link & full image. Related: Google video tech talk about the […]

Spin to Knit

Spin to Knit is a new book due out in October by CRAFT friend and knitgrrl Shannon Okey. The book site has just launched and it’s filled with preview pages, a secret pals SWAP group, and a great free pattern to make Shannon’s Power Station Hat. We can’t wait to check out this book! Link.