How-To: Paper Teardrop Ornament
I love the simple elegance of these paper teardrop ornaments from Patricia Zapata of A Little Hut. She shows you how to make them with the most basic of supplies.
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Clock shows video of dude erasing and redrawing hands every minute
Man, this is awesome: This clock is actually an LED screen looping a video of the designer manually redrawing the minute hand every minute, in real time, for an hour. I guess the hour hand is probably moved digitally. Would be kinda scary if he actually stood there and redrew the hands manually every minute for a full 12 hours. I don’t know much about the designer; just that the video was filmed “at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009” and posted to YouTube by A3Network. Feel free to give a shout in the comments if you’ve got more info.
Maker Faire Detroit 2010
Dale (publisher of MAKE and CRAFT) has an exciting announcement about Maker Faire Detroit 2010! Last summer, after our Maker Faire in the Bay Area, I had a couple of speaking engagements in the Detroit area. One was at a Go Tech meeting in Ann Arbor, at the A2 MechShop. I had many people asking […]
How-To: Winter Mushroom Wonderland
Celebrate deep winter and the bitter cold with a unique seasonal floral arrangement. This miniature landscape brings the beauty of the forest into your warm and cozy home. It’s simple to create a tiny version of the woods, and adding mushrooms from the grocery store makes it all the more unusual and authentic. Mushrooms last […]
Making a chair out of recycled plastic
Here’s a neat process video where Richard Liddle shows how he makes the RD Chair. It’s an excellent idea- after melting the used plastic, he extrudes it by hand onto a collapsible wooden form, and removes the form after everything cools down.
Arduino Cake
Have your open source cake and eat it too with this Arduino cake, made by Massimo Banzi’s students at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. [via adafruit] More: CRAFT Video: LilyPad Arduino 101
Carboard Rocket Ship
CRAFT friend Stacey Gordon’s son and husband made this cardboard rocket ship from a big box. I remember being thrilled at the prospect of cardboard forts from appliance boxes, and this one looks extra rad. What an awesome homemade gift idea for the special little space cadet in your life!