By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics The traditional craft of quilting can be used to make many mathematical forms. While quilters have always used geometry to work out repeating patterns, some modern quilters go further in using mathematical objects as the subjects of their quilts. Here are two impressive examples by Sarah Mylchreest […]
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: alien deer by deathbyexposure, Caps Loch Monster by Trickartt, Black/red jersey leggings by zliss, and Volcano for Hoop Up! by modernjax.
The LED Cube kit is an animated 3D cube of LEDs made by modifying the MiniPOV! It’s been a popular hack, and now all the parts are available in a kit from the Maker Shed.
FLEA at MIT – The swapfest is today! more @ the swapfest site.
Kath at Whip Up is having a quilt-along for her book Whip Up Mini Quilts. See our review for her beautiful quilting book where Kath also shares with us some great quilting tips. Kath writes: Each Friday for 6 weeks [more or less] – I am going to post one of the quilts from the […]
Simon Jansen, he of Star Wars ASCIImation, the TARDIS MAME console, Beer Brewing Bender fame, was recently inspired by the 1920s “Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator” that he’d sent us the link to some weeks back. He decided to try and build one. I made my own version, using some brass bits and pieces, a […]
Princeton Architectural Press has done it again, producing a book that is as beautiful and tactile as it is thought-provoking and educational. BEE, by artist and photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher, is basically a photo gallery of scanning electron microscope photographs of bee anatomy. The pictures, ranging in magnification from 10x to 5000x, are stunning, and by […]
