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.
This is a pretty sweet looking project- Mavromatic has made a DIY weatherproof outdoor camera rig to take time-lapse photos of a house being built using an Axis Cam, Linksys WET11 and a super circuits heated camera enclosure. As an added bonus the entire neighborhood got free wifi, part II of the article is supposed to be up next week. Link.
I tend to like multi-function jewelry, I had an iButton ring to start my car awhile back which was a lot of fun, anyway if you’re not in to DIY Kegerators here’s the bottle opener ring. This is a stainless steel finger gizmo performs an essential service in the party season: the stylish Ring Thing is a handy little bottle opener. Only $10. Link.
Here’s an older but useful article about all sorts of batteries you can build to power your digital camera. This is a good introduction to the types of batteries and cell capacities- as well as soldering up something you’ll be plugging in to your digital camera. Link.
This ring is made out of a quarter by flattening the edge with a spoon or machinist hammer, then after drilling a hole and polishing the center is dremmeled out. A sanding disc is used to smooth out the inside and sized it to fit. After it’s a complete you have a pretty neat looking ring. It would be cool to make ones from different countries you visited and give them to friends.
I played this on Saturday and guessed 2 of them correctly… Turing’s Original Imitation Game was played for the first time ever at Simon’s Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington, MA on Saturday, April 16, 2005. The experiment was organized by Cameo Wood, Melissa Leventhal and Allyson Sgro…The participants were asked to chat with two companions over AOL instant messenger for five minutes, and then to guess which was a man and which was a woman. Full story here.
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