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.

Hamster Powered MIDI Device

Hamster Powered MIDI Device

Ham-1 Bob writes “Cornell student Levi Lorenzo wanted to do a project about MIDI music technology, so the project he came up with was to build a hamster controlled music generator. The hamster controller uses 6 hamsters to control 3 rythmic tones. One hamster controls the “rythmic qualities of the melodies”, and the other controls the note sequence. As the hamsters wander back and forth in their passages, the music created changes according to their position. The music is actually not bad!” [via] Link.

Printing with Gocco

Printing with Gocco

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Gocco is an inexpensive professional quality home printing kit. Get Crafty’s The Dilettante Crafter, Nancy Flynn, tests one out for her holiday card project. She goes through the step by step process of how to use Gocco to print your own designs onto card stock. In addition to paper and card stock, Gocco can print on fabric, wood, three dimensional objects, and on large or small surfaces. Make stickers, decorate t-shirts, create your own art and put your own crafty stamp on the world! Link

Bluetooth Sewing Machine

Bluetooth Sewing Machine

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Itay Potash’s prototype sewing machine, Flat Mode, blends high-technology with modern form and function. The compact machine folds up and closes like a laptop for easy storage. Flat Mode makes it easy to whip out the sewing machine to hem a quick stitch. The simple minimalist digital interface and four main buttons take out the overwhelming guesswork of today’s computerized sewing machines. Bluetooth technology is available so the foot pedal can control the sewing machine. The Flat Mode prototype garnered Potash top honors by the Manufacturers Association of Israel and he is currently working on mass-producing his sewing wonder. We can’t wait to get our crafty hands on one! Link

Dance Dance Revolution for TI Calcs!

Dance Dance Revolution for TI Calcs!

72283Revolution is a clone of the Dance Dance Revolution game using xLIB flash APP by Patrick Prendergast (hence the name). Unlike most other calculator clones this one features crazy graphics and run pretty fast. It also includes a level editor that will allow infinite possibilities for the game. You can even have background images in songs or even animations! Probably one of (if not the) best DDR clone for calcs. [via] Link.

WiFi.Bedouin

WiFi.Bedouin

Bedouin PackWiFi.Bedouin is a wearable, mobile 802.11b node disconnected from the global Internet. It forms a WiFi “island Internet” challenging conventional assumptions about WiFi and suggesting new architectures for digital networks that are based on physical proximity rather than solely connectivity. Most significantly, WiFi.Bedouin facilitates the creation of a truly mobile web community. [via] Link.