How lumber is made
Ever wonder how you can get rectangular lumber from round trees? I figured that it involved a lot of sawing, but didn’t realize how much handling was required.
Month: December 2009
How-To: Build a vintage diving helmet prop
Interesting tutorial over on Propnomicon, by Richard Bird, who built this vintage diving helmet replica prop for a recent LARP adventure for London’s The Dark Door group.
Ask CRAFT: Baby-Safe Designs on Fabric
If you have a question for Ask CRAFT, shoot me an email at becky@craftzine.com, or drop us a note on Twitter! We’d love to answer your crafty questions on any topic: technique, projects, crafty culture, or anything else! Each week the answers are here; include your name, where you’re from, and your website or blog […]
Yours truly guest-blogs Make & Meaning
Make: Online guest contributor and all-around pal Paul Overton, of Dude Craft fame, has kindly solicited an article from me for his new creative-process blog Make & Meaning. My piece is called On The Care and Feeding of Ideas. Thanks, Paul!
Shuttle replica and supplies looking for a home
Make: Online’s space correspondent, Rachel Hobson, points us to this article in Florida Today: After months of searching for a new home for a full-scale model of the space shuttle’s crew compartment, Chuck Ryan is beginning to accept the replica he spent almost 15 years building may soon be destroyed. He is now trying to […]
Free Embroidery Pattern For January From Andrea Zuill
I’m always happy to see the new monthly freebie embroidery pattern from Andrea Zuill of Badbirds, and this cute squirrel one is one of my favorites I’ve see so far!
How-To: Structured light 3D scanning
Wow, an incredible Instructable fromKyle McDonald: The same technique used for Thom’s face in the Radiohead “House of Cards” video. I’ll walk you through setting up your projector and camera, and capturing images that can be decoded into a 3D point cloud using a Processing application. Most 3D scanning is based on triangulation (the exception […]