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.

HOW TO – Make your own laptop bag

HOW TO – Make your own laptop bag

InstMAKE Instructable group member Radiorental made a really nice laptop bag from 1/4″ thick antistatic workbench rubber mats – “Materials are irrelevent. I wanted a slightliy durable material and opted for this 1/4″ thick antistatic workbench rubber mat. Some neoprene for the parts of the bag that will directly cover the laptop to provide some shock absorbsion and a combination velcro & tarp snap for fastning.” Nice work! Link.

Build-It-Yourself toys, robots, puppets and contraptions…

Build-It-Yourself toys, robots, puppets and contraptions…

Index-Photo-Kids1Old Professor Bear writes “This place is 2 blocks from my home. I pass by it every so often, but at night when it’s closed. But it looks like it would be of much Maker interest. Building Junior Makers, or something like that … Anyway, FWIW, have a look – Build-It-Yourself has developed a creative robotics program in collaboration with MIT that inspires, engages and guides kids to build in a unique global laboratory of the future. Build-It-Yourself seeks corporate partners who can bring our program to 20 million+ kids in the after-school market.” Link.

LabVIEW as a Synthesizer?

LabVIEW as a Synthesizer?

LabviewPeter is looking for some Makers out there, he writes “Basically, the folks at National Instruments have added DSP (digital signal processing, useful for lots of audio applications — both industrial and musical), to LabVIEW, their high-end development platform for creating test / measurement / control applications. Here’s the cool part: they designed a free synth (as in musical synth) to run on the platform. Somewhere out there, there’s a scientist or engineer who’s going to love fiddling with this thing. It’s electronic music for Dr. Bunsen Honeydew. Know anyone in those communities (blogosphere or printosphere) who might be interested in this?” Link.

HOW TO – DIY Hanging pot rack…

HOW TO – DIY Hanging pot rack…

71652464 253544E55CRemember when we asked about cool Home Depot projects? Here’s one that Patrick sent in, he writes – “Want a interesting looking, reasonably priced hanging pot rack? Here is one that I built in about thirty minutes. Everything screws together, so it is fun and easy to assemble, after you have the parts. The hooks are purposely fixed in one direction so that you are not up all night listening to your pans swivel and clang around. You can also slide the hooks into different places on the bar to accomodate the different sizes. It might take longer than thirty minutes to build if you do a better job than I did peeling the stickers off all the parts.” Link.

Camerapedia…

Camerapedia…

CamerapediaThis is a great idea, one place on the web that may eventually contain every camera with all the important things you need to know about just about every camera – “Camerapedia.org is a free-content encyclopedia of camera information. The intention of the camerapedia Wiki is to be a repository for information and links to information about all still camera brands and models. You know your camera equipment better than anyone. Please share that knowledge with everyone and contribute.” Link.