From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
TIffany Tomato Designs sells handmade goods made from recycled products such as wine corks, cake mix boxes, candy wrappers and more. She also has a bevy of DIY project how tos on her site like this umbrella skirt made from a broken umbrella fabric and this placemat made from a cereal box and milk carton. […]
Vassilis writes “A Tutorial Board for the PIC16F84A Microcontroller. This is a new design of a tutorial board based on the popular PIC16F84A microcontroller. It features eight single leds, a 7-segment display, an LCD display and five push buttons. It is an ideal solution for the beginner to take his/her first programming steps in the […]
Tikva Morowati brings us this report from a fellow student in the ITP program at NYU. Kate Hartman made a sweatshirt that vibrates when you complete a wearable circuit. The fabric I used for this particular model is called Kassel. It is made by Shieldex and can be purchased from from Fine Silver Products. Some […]
Will has a good starter on making your own CNC machine – “Ready for some hard core gadget creation? If you thought your dremel tool was handy before, in today’s How-To we’ll start building our own CNC machine. Aside from the geek factor, it can be handy for making things like PC boards without chemicals […]
Here’s our next TV-B-Gone mod, bam! “This TV-B-Gone uses a 9V battery to send its signal through a matrix of 20 IR LEDS. This extends the working range of the device to about 90ft (line of sight). Using this in a regular sized room you are pretty much guaranteed to kill the TV no matter […]
ThePhoton’s Nixie clock that we have followed over the last few weeks is done done done, nice work! – “After nearly three months since the beginning of the project the clock is complete. It uses four GNP-17A tubes for the main hours and minutes display, and two IN-16 tubes for the seconds. The case is […]
Simon from BigBlueSaw writes “Lamina Design has software that lets you turn interesting 3D designs made in Rhino or other CAD software into wonderful 3D objects that can be made on a waterjet.” [via] – Link.
