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.
DIY helmet cam – “The helmet-cam is useful anytime you want video but you don’t want to use a hand or second video-person on the project. We use ours to record the designing and building of HowToons projects. It can be an invaluable anlysis and learning tool for rapid prototyping.” – Link.
Crafty use of old bottle caps – make magnets and thumbtacks – [via] – Link.
Lizette Greco makes crafty goods based on the drawings of her children. Now it looks like the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree as her kids have started to make their own cuddly creatures themselves. Posted up on the CRAFT flickr pool are these photos. Pictured left is her son’s pterodactyl and at right […]
A digital sun dial – “The sun.dial is an internet-based installation project that fosters a sense of shared global space and time. The principle system consists of twelve LCD displays suspended from an overhead apparatus in an outward-facing ring. This circular display is the hub of a world-wide input system. Each screen displays the information […]
Matthijs writes – “For about $60, you can build a camera crane for a lightweight videocamera. The nifty thing about this design is that you can not only move crane up and down and rotate it, but you can also pan and tilt the camera. Plus, it’s pretty lightweight and can be easily disassembled and […]
Here another one for this retro Sunday, it looks like a tiny pinhole camera inside a spool of thread (Popular Science 1940) – Link. We have tons of how-to guides on making pinhole cameras, so you could likely (re)make this.
Simple and easy how to on making Korean character paper luminaries – Link.
