How Transistors work
Curious how transistors work? This site has some OK animations and explanations – Link.
Craft & Design
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.
3.5 inch floppy diskette sculpture
George Hart’s geometric sculptures, I really like the floppy disk one – “This is Disk Combobulation I, an assemblage of thirty 3.5 inch floppy diskettes, slotted and slid into each other gluelessly, embodying a precise five-color pattern. Each diskette is penetrated by diskettes of the other four colors. Twelve five-sided openings are each bordered by […]
JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser Tank
Land tank, only $20k – “Features: Carries cargo or a crew of up to five internally or on the roof. Piloted from within the armored shell or from an exposed standing position through the hatch. 6hp Tecumseh gasoline engine, top speed 40 mph. Includes head/tail and turn signal lights, trim and underbody lighting. 400 watt […]
HTML to MIDI – What does a site sound like?
This site takes a web pages and turns it into a MIDI you can listen to – [via] Link. Here’s what MAKE sounds like – Link (MID). I then imported the MIDI file to GarageBand – not a bad way to make music for soundtracks, games or whatever else. Here’s the MP3 – Link (MP3).
Remaking Thift Store Art
On display at the Wurst gallery is a series of thift store art recreated by 15 artists who were asked to find a framed piece of artwork at their local thrift store and remake it into their own creative masterpiece. Featured here at the top is Driscoll Reid’s work based on the idea of evolution […]
Copyright Free Vintage Collage Images
Join the Flickr group, Collage Images, and get access to over 18,000 vintage copyright free artwork that you can use in your craft or media projects. There’s so much variety to chose from such as maps, scientific drawings, letters, old photos, vintage labels, and more. Feaured here are Puffing Billy Train Ticket from 1913 and […]
Wet lamp
Scott J. Franklin’s handblown glass lamp with adjustable brightness, in water – “The WET Lamp is an elegant and playful series of glass lamps with an alluring water-submerged light bulb at its center. Putting an exposed light bulb in water certainly raises some eyebrows, but it also creates an intriguingly simple dimmer switch. When a […]