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.
Chuck told me that he has a “Yano” doll coming to him in the mail to hack up and pointed me to this robotic hack of the doll. I postulate that it is the child of yoda and a gremlin. The main focus of this project had to do with creating an easy method for […]
Whip Up’s got a cool collection of tutorials on how to make your own knitting needles, even circular ones. Link.
DIY:Happy has a good round up of ways to do solvent transfers (pictured here one from a moleskine gallery)… – “Doing a solvent transfer is probably the quickest, easiest way to get an image onto a T-Shirt, Moleskine, or other surface. Like screen printing, the image is applied directly the surface. Unlike screen printing, this […]
Matthew Irvine Brown’s “Breath Control Car” project – ” This is a standard remote control toy car with a mouthpiece the player blows into to control steering. The car measures controlled change – blow gradually harder and it steers to the right; blow gradually softer and it steers to the left. At least 80% of […]
The MAKE/CRAFT team will be at the SF Giants Stitch N’ Pitch Game this Thursday. Doors open at 5:15pm and the game against the San Diego Padres will start at 7:15pm. I spent some of yesterday afternoon at the SF Giants offices helping them stuff tote bags for the giveaways. Here’s Alyze of the SF […]
It looks like some folks are getting development versions of the $100 laptop, MAKE Flickr photo pool member Curiouslee is working on a music project, he writes “At the time of this photo, about 150 boards have been seeded out to developers. This one was running a version of Barry Vercoe’s Csound which will conduct […]
Multiplayer Atari, using a giant joystick from artist Mary Flanagan… “Inviting users to play classic arcade games by collaboratively moving on and controlling a 9-foothigh joystick (modelled after the 1980 Atari 2600 one), Mary Flanagan highlights the spatial and social role of the interface. The joystick itself becomes a social sculpture and territory for inter-personal […]
