Another cool wearables project from Adafruit Director of Wearable Electronics and MAKE alum Becky Stern. In this design, Becky is showing off the capabilities of Adafruit’s FLORA wearable color sensor. She’s sewn it into a circuit with a FLORA microcontroller and 12 FLORA RGB LEDs, on a ruffled scarf designed to diffuse the light and give a softer effect.
Do your summer relaxation plans include a bit of traveling? Take your trips in crafty style with this cute and practical DIY travel crafting box tutorial!
Make your own repositionable paper tape decorations that will stick again and again with this reusable washi tape tutorial!
I was driving a local road here in Sebastopol, Calif. when something caught my eye. Skateboards. Lots of them. Not rolling down the street, but artfully painted ones tacked up on the garage of someone’s house and mounted on posts like sculpture. Turns out it was the work of a architect who has a side business as a artist and skateboard graphics designer.
When it’s time for your little one to graduate to a big kid bed, don’t toss the crib, turn it into an awesome desk instead! Find out how in this crib to desk upcycling post from Caz at A Little Learning for Two. [Via CraftGossip] More: How-To: Cork Trivet Desk Organizer @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Penny […]
My sweet tooth is dying for a packet of these incredibly awesome patriotic candy buttons! Sweet Sugar Belle not only created this flag-inspired sugary snack, she even put together a clever package so that these sweet treats can be handed out as favors at a Fourth of July party.
Last weekend the second annual Maker Faire KC took place at Union Station, Kansas City’s 1914 beaux-arts train station. The grandeur of the Union Station is hard to resist, but of course it really was the makers of the Midwest who made Maker Faire KC such a special event. According to organizers Luis Rodriguez and […]
