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.

Kodak camera mods

Kodak camera mods

Camera hacker has a couple new projects for Kodak series 3 & C cameras – the first, add LED lights to your Kodak printer dock. Screw driver and soldering iron required Link. The second is a quick hack – you’ll never have to buy proprietary batteries for your Kodak C330 digital camera again. Use regular […]

Biggest.Siren.Ever

Biggest.Siren.Ever

A glimpse back at simpler times, when everything could be solved with huge sirens in every city – “..a Chrysler Air Raid Siren, the most powerful siren in the world. It’s the size of a car, measuring near 12-feet in length and standing more than 6-feet tall. It also weighs twice as much as today’s […]

Circuit bent Pikachu

Circuit bent Pikachu

Get LoFi has an awesome video of a circuit bent Pikachu toy – complete with touch contacts and pitch knob Link. They also have a video from the Bend2005+-festival of some Makers playing some sort of PVC system with wonderful noises coming out it. If you want to learn how to make your own circuit […]

Helloindie – all-indie, all-handmade

Helloindie – all-indie, all-handmade

I’m really looking forward to this magazine, an all-indie, all-handmade shopping magazine – “helloindie is a quarterly print magalog (magazine + catalog) that enhances this community of independent artists by providing a platform for promoting their wares and increasing consumer awareness of alternative products and online shopping. Think of it as an indie Lucky (with […]

Cigarbox purse

Cigarbox purse

Shawn picked an awesome homemade cigar box purse. As you can tell, this is really simple to make and since cigar boxes are usually beaultifully illustrated, could be a fun project Link. Speaking of cigar boxes – see our previous posts and projects about them, including making your own electric guitar with one! Article (MAKE […]