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.

DJVU Reader version 0.1 for the Sony Librie

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Alejandro in the Sony Librie Yahoo group released a new reader app – “I am “shipping early” a version of the DJVU reader for Librie lbhooked devices. As the previous demo, it is a .tar.gz file at Installation is the typical lbhook; copy the whole structure to a memory stick and try. I have problems with the keyboard controller, so I have introduced some delays. Any insider information is welcome. Besides, there are a “prefetch next page” mechanism which precludes fast advancing. If you press a key and nothing happens, count slowly to ten and press again.” Link. See our previous how tos on the Sony e-Ink reader (Japanese version).

Bling Your Own Sidekick

Bling Your Own Sidekick

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MAKE friend Beth Goza decorated her Sidekick II in style. All you need is a design and some colorful packs of sticky bling from Best Buy. What’s great is that you get to control how much “bling” goes on as well as the design and style. Beth’s design here integrates seamlessly into her gadget. Here’s a tip from Beth, “Side by side placement is generally not a good idea. The rows should fit into each other, in other words, the second row of sequins will be placed with each sequin sitting in between the two sequins above.” Thanks Beth! Link.

The Ascent – A Wooden Clock Kit

The Ascent – A Wooden Clock Kit

90682693 Dfa1Bf5167 MKrazydad writes – “I decided a few weeks ago to build a wooden gear clock because I wanted to understand the clock mechanism better. There are a number of websites that offer plans for wooden gear clocks, but as someone with absolutely no woodworkng experience (band practice generally interferes with taking shop class), and no tools, I needed something that was ready to build. I found three sites that offer such kits…” Here’s a review of the Ascent Wooden Gear Clock kit. Link.

HOW TO – Make caffeinated chocolate

HOW TO – Make caffeinated chocolate

JoltcWe do cover a lot of food how to’s here, but this one is one I’ll actually make – “Ever had a big lunch and then fall into a food coma when you go back to work/class? Here’s a nice ‘pick me up’ treat that’s simple to make and delicious as well! Here are the stuff you need: Semi-Sweet Chocolate chips (or block), Coffee beans (maybe canned), wax paper, butter knife (or sm. offset spatula).” Link.

Turn virtual 3D objects into real world objects

Turn virtual 3D objects into real world objects

Sl RealHere it is…3D-printing a SecondLife / WoW character, and mashup into Google Earth! “OGLE (i.e. OpenGLExtractor) is a software package by Eyebeam R&D that allows for the capture and re-use of 3D geometry data from 3D graphics applications running on Microsoft Windows. It works by observing the data flowing between 3D applications and the system’s OpenGL library, and recording that data in a standard 3D file format. In other words, a ‘screen grab’ or ‘view source’ operation for 3D data.” [via] Link.