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.

Crocheting Hyperbolic Space

Crocheting Hyperbolic Space

Crochet Hyperbolic
Dr. Daina Taimina, a Cornell University mathematician, creates intricate crochet pieces in order to better illustrate the physical model of hyperbolic space. “The beauty of Taimina’s method is that many of the intrinsic properties of hyperbolic space now become visible to the eye and can be directly experienced by playing with the models.” Dr. Taimina’s crochet models are on display at the Smithsonian’s collection of American Mathematical Models. The Institute for Figuring has collected a great deal of information about her work in online and real-world exhibitions. Thanks Jeff! Link

Make your own wearable LED display

Make your own wearable LED display

Supplies Chris writes “In a 7 page article Leah Buechley will show you from a-z how she put together a wearable led display perfect for club hopping! (Or maybe NOT!) The purpose of the whole display is to show off the “Game of life” which is a mathematical simulation of life. The project contains a lot of good close ups on her work in progress, and even a short movie where you can see the simulation running.” Link.

HOW TO make a medium format pinhole LEGO camera

HOW TO make a medium format pinhole LEGO camera

Pinhole Lego Camera Found Photography has a great step by step on making a pinhole LEGO camera – “After making the Lego conversion of my old Polaroid 95a, I decided to tackle another Lego challenge: a medium format Pinhole Lego Camera. I had several goals for the lego camera: 1. First, I wanted to make sure that the film advance knob only turned one direction. 2. Secondly, I wanted to have a film counter in addition to the red window. 3. And last but not least, it would be nice to have some sort of viewfinder.” [via] Link.

More Crafty Robots

More Crafty Robots

Oliviarobot
Embroidery is now one of the coolest crafts around thanks to Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching. Our friend Olivia, just started her very first embroidery project with Sublime Stitching’s easy to use iron-on pattern, Atomique. The result? A cute embroidered robot for a baby quilt. Hmm…seems to be a robot + crafting trend a brewin’!. We love the color combinations and textures she produced through embroidery and how well it complements the circle patterned fabric. Great job Olivia! Link

Lego Yarn Winder

Lego Yarn Winder

Legoyarnwinder
All knitters know how painstaking a task winding yarn is on your poor wrists. There’s also a lot dexterity you need to keep the yarn from tangling into a big mess. (This unfortunate mess has happened to me many times.) Craftster.org’s multitude of project forums saves the day with a DIY Lego Yarn Winder. Powered by two motors and an RCX unit, this automatic yarn winder is just the excuse we need to go out and buy a new box of Legos. Thanks Leah! Link