Sometimes you see a project that is so simple and perfect, you can’t wait to implement it yourself. That’s how I feel about the latest offering from Camilla of Family Chic, who found a way to use plastic toy animals to remind her kids of simple tasks that can often be overlooked. Everyday I ask […]
Andrew over at CRAFT spotted this incredible work by Judith Klausner. “Toast Embroidery” and “Cereal Sampler” are part of her “From Scratch” series. Like the production of food, a variety of handicrafts were a mundane requirement of the female gender. Today, as we come to realize that something has been lost in the mechanization of […]
Here’s a splendid piece of recycling from Melissa at To Boldly Fold. She took an empty plastic wrap box (and the tube that the wrap came on), and modified them into a handy way to store her collection of Japanese masking tapes. I love any project that gives me a good excuse to acquire more […]
The 64 Button Shield not only allows you to use up to 64 buttons with your next Arduino project, it also has a hidden “easter egg” that allows it to output MIDI. This video demonstrates MIDI functionality by using a 64 Button Shield, a Midivox, and an Arduino together for use as a physical interface for your favorite MIDI compatible music program.
Gavin from Sydney built this 2-meter POV staff for full color light painting. The hardware is pretty simple. There’s a 2m programmable LED strip inside an acrylic tube, which is controlled from a small receiver and battery pack. A laptop PC with a wireless Xbee link sends the image data to the scythe at a […]
“Toast Embroidery” and “Cereal Sampler” were made by Judith Klausner as part of a series called, “From Scratch.” Like the production of food, a variety of handicrafts were a mundane requirement of the female gender. Today, as we come to realize that something has been lost in the mechanization of everything around us, there is […]
I believe Los Angeles artist Jeff Cook’s medium is correctly described as marquetry (“the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns, designs or pictures”) rather than parquetry (“very similar in technique to marquetry: in parquetry the pieces of veneer are of simple repeating geometric shapes, forming tiling patterns”). But it’s an interesting question…
