Year: 2010

This Week In Craft Fairs

Upcoming craft fairs! Please add any that you know of to our calendar. Send call for entries to me via . Thanks! Coming Up This Weekend: 2nd Annual Winter Craft Fair Leonia, NJ Sunday, Feb. 21, 10am – 4pm Didsbury Vintage & Craft Fair Manchester, England Saturday, Feb. 20, 10am – 4pm Crafternoon Tea Auckland, […]

DIY yurt made out of trash

DIY yurt made out of trash

Niki Raapana designed a DIY shelter called a Gertee. Gertees are round houses made of sticks and poles tied together with zipties and covered with cloth or other materials. Each one is as unique as the owner who builds it. All ger/yurts can be tailor made to fit any kind of budget. Many builders world-wide […]

Relief: 3D interactive maps

Relief: 3D interactive maps

Called a “scalable actuated shape display”, this project by Daniel Leithinger, Adam Kumpf, and Hiroshi Ishii of MIT’s Tangible Media Group seems especially suited for displaying terrain. Relief is an actuated tabletop display, which is able to render and animate three-dimensional shapes with a malleable surface. It allows users to experience and form digital models […]