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.

DIY LED Marquee

DIY LED Marquee

Ben’s L.E.D. Marquee – “The design is relatively straight-foreward.One of the 555’s set the rate you wish the individual LED’s to turn on ( and off). I set this at a 50% duty cycle so it looked like the “spelling” of the word looked uniform. The other 555 sets the rate at which the turn […]

Radio radio MP3 player

Radio radio MP3 player

Machineproject writes – “Tom Jennings put a neat page up about converting his 1970 amc car radio into an mp3 player, which you might find interesting, a great part of the charm is his brief discussion of user interface design for car radios. He’ll be showing it at the Los Angeles meeting of dorkbot on […]

DIY Heat blocking curtains

DIY Heat blocking curtains

TheNickboy writes – “Summer is nearing/here, and it’s getting hotter in my house. To save electricity with our super expensive A/C, I constructed reflective curtains to block sunlight from warming our house. Think auto windshield. This is super simple and kind of obvious, but it works well.” – Link.

Nixie propeller clock

Nixie propeller clock

Check out Jon’s Nixie propeller clock – “I was inspired to build this clock after I saw some links to see “Nebulus, the world’s first nixie propeller clock.” Unfortunately, by that time many of the links were dead and I only managed to find a video of the clock. I never could find any documentation […]