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.
Make pal Eric Rice is up to something “The ChaseCam mount, six suction cups holding a Panasonic DVC30 3CCD camera. Look out for drive-by citizen journalism. Or car chases, your call.” I wonder if there’s a Maker version that uses our cheap camera stabilizer and a car mount… Link.
Rob writes “The Phongraph makers’ pages – A meeting place for makers of modern phonographs, i.e. cylinder players that give an electric output.” …when browsing through the entries, no two phonographs are alike, in fact they are very different, an expression of the creativity of their respective makers. Link.
Master of the ‘teardown’, Eric Pratt from iSuppli Corp. specializes in stripping down gadgets and finding out how much they’re really worth…The Mac mini which retails for $499 is actually worth $283 in parts and labor. The 2 Gig iPod Nano retails for $199, but is actually worth $103 in parts and labor. The most expensive component is actually the iPod Nano’s 2 Gigs of memory. Eric finished up with a G4 exclusive teardown of the Game Boy Micro which retails for $100. The actual cost of the Micro is only $44. The screen on the GB Micro is actually the most expensive component. Link.
Captured using a wide range of techniques, from state-of-the art scientific microscopes to standard and digital cameras, the images cover many different areas of science. For example, amongst the winning images we see a hatching mosquito, a close-up of salt and pepper, an artist’s impression of a migraine attack and care of a premature baby. [via] Link. The images are small, but larger ones can be found here and here. In MAKE 04 we have a great HOW TO on homemade strobe photography.
The iPod video might not be your cup of shiny, and if you have a Pocket PC you can pretty much view videos now – in more formats, sans DRM. While it might require a bit more elbow grease than the one-click iTunes offers up, this handy guide rounds up most of the ways you’ll get, convert and load up video on a Pocket PC. Link.
Here’s a game of paper chess. This pdf file from Peter Visser’s Site has a pattern for each chess piece. Use your own board or make one of your own. There are a lot of other interesting paper-craft projects and art on paper forest blog to check out too. [