Print Your Own Earrings
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to design and make your own earrings from photo paper, packing tape and duct tape. Make your own dangly chandelier earrings or add some simple beading for embellishment. Link.
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.
Super-simple DIY synth plans
“From Ray Wilson, inventor of the Soundlab Mini Synth comes the Wacky Electronic Noise Maker Thingy. It’s a much simpler circuit, which produces surprisingly cool pulsing, bleeping type noises. You can hear sound clips here. It’s made with a handful of components, a few pots and switches and a 9v battery. There’s a very clear schematic, a PCB design and a stripboard layout.” Thanks Tom! Link.
Food embossing…
I’m not sure why I like this, perhaps it’s because I’d like to put text/code on edible things at all the conferences – then eat them. This company makes food embossing gear, I really like the pizza roller, you roll it along and it makes text in the dough, then you bake it. You could automate it, and put RSS feeds or stock prices on them, but that might be going too far. Link.
Knit DNA Model
Kimberly Chapman knitted DNA models have been a hit among her friends. Now, Kimberly shows you how you can make your own knitted DNA models just like hers. Perfect cuddy science gift for toddlers and kids. Scroll down to the bottom for the link.
Advances in toaster music technology
Peter writes “It’s toasters as musical instruments: people are stuffing guitar amps and effects and synths into vintage toasters, with tricked-out options like chrome paint, rubber tires, and flame throwers. And yes, they still make toast.” Link. Also worth mentioning, Peter has 3 great DIY music articles in MAKE 04.
Make a Calendar from Flickr photos
This site allows you to enter any image or Flickr photo location and it will generate a calendar. You need to select each month and create the months manually, but with just 12 photos and little bit of time you could make a nice present for someone during the holidays. [via] Link. Oh, here’s mine – it’s November, and that’s “cyborg your dog” month here.
She was allergic to inactivity
We love the idea of knitted art . A knitted chair is a second object in a series of sculptures entitled “Idle Work”. The yarn is hand-dyed 100% wool and is sewn around the chair like a skin. You can view the whole process online, from the yarn skein hand-dying to the final end result. Link.