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.
We profiled Natalie Jeremijenko in MAKE 02 (toxic sensing robot dogs) – and here’s some of her latest work, amazing animations showing the variety of the lady bug “200 individual labybugs selected from a population of approximately four thousand, become the frames in an animation. The ladybug images are scaled, color corrected and ordered by […]
rAndom writes – “PixelRoller is a paint roller that paints pixels, designed as a rapid response printing tool specifically to print digital information such as imagery or text onto a great range of surfaces. The content is applied in continuous strokes by the user. PixelRoller can be seen as a handheld “printer”, based around the […]
Aram Bartholl’s Paper Pixels – “Paper Pixels is a 30 inch, 8 x 8 pixel, manually controlled screen. Each of the 64 pixels is illuminated steadily by a light bulb. Apart from the light bulbs, no further electronic parts are used. The display is controlled by a long paper strip – the data medium – […]
Mike writes – “My close friend Neal Ormond just made a fire screen the produces some amazing fire art. Solenoids, propane, and a PC. Who knew you could have so much fun?” – Their site has more details and videos – wow, this looks amazing: Forget big screen and flat panel TVs. The Infernoptix Digital […]
Our pal Mike over on Popular Science has a good photo frame project, he writes – “Turn an old laptop into a digital frame that automatically displays new shots from your Flickr account–then give it to your mother…” – Link. Related: Tons and tons of LCD photo frame projects – Link.
We love the idea that there will be a new generation of babies growing up wearing handmade math and tech gear. This baby sweater, knitted by Debbie Chachra as a gift to the site’s author, has a pattern derived from Conway’s cellular-automata Game of Life. From the site,”We discussed what design to put on the […]
Great kit for pinstripoing your latest computer case mod or robot companion – “Practice Pinstriping with Kafka. Refine style or develop a new skill, before the brush touches your car or a sign. The legendary Steve Kafka assembled this easy to follow teaching system to help the beginner or seasoned striper learn to use his […]
