I just wanted to let everyone know that Curio for January is up! It’s a collection of a few of the amazing handmade crafts and art objects that have caught our eye this month. As I was gathering them, I realized that while it made a lot of sense to have a section like this […]
Oddly, electronics manufacturer LG chose not to announce their revolutionary-seeming invention — flexible e-paper in A3 size — at CES. From their press release: LG Display has announced its development of a newspaper-size flexible e-paper. The 19-inch wide (250x400mm) flexible e-paper is almost as big as a page of A3 sized newspaper. The product is […]
Twitter user ChristineMMTTM points us to this great video record of the process of building a remote control airplane that was built from junk that could be scavenged from most household trash.
Drew Crawford made this excellent-sounding piezo speaker sound library for the Arduino. A demonstration of the library in action starts at 3 minutes into the above video, and the library can be downloaded from his code repository.
By Jessica Wilson I’ve been using skirt and pants hangers to hold works in progress (WIP) for a half-dozen or so years. Because I lack pretty wall space, the projects that hang from the hangers generally end up in the closet where they are quickly forgotten. It’s that whole out of sight, out of mind […]
Buckminster Fuller practiced Dymaxion Sleeping, where one has four 30 minute naps over a period of 24 hours. Architect/ Artist/ Scientist/ Graphic Designer Forrest Jessee thought that he would give this a try, but found that getting to a bed and ready for sleep took almost as much time as the sleep itself. So he […]
(Photos by: Cory Ryan) We aren’t stopping with the craft space inspiration this week and today, we take a visit with knitting/crochet and overall crafting queen, Vickie Howell. Vickie’s craft space photos by Cory Ryan appear in the new book Where Women Create: Book of Inspiration by Jo Packham and Jenny Doh. Pre-order your copy […]
