Year: 2010

How-To: Simple Summer Boatneck Top

I love this great top from Jennifer Casa for Sew, Mama, Sew! She created the pattern after being inspired by a thrifted shirt she’d picked up for her daughters. I determined that my girls’ top was basically a tank top with elasticized thread at the waist, neck and arms. I knew it would definitely work […]

Papercraft paint chip ads

Papercraft paint chip ads

SherwiniWilliams hired Matthew Sporzynski to make these paint chip paper sculptures for their ads. I noticed the same papercraft aesthetic in their video ads, but those appear to me to be virtual papercraft. It’s interesting to see effects artists and animators getting into the “crafty” aesthetic, like in Viva Piñata and Little Big Planet, too. […]

Controlled mushroom habitat with Arduino

Controlled mushroom habitat with Arduino

Instructables user anthony_p1234 writes: This is my first Arduino project aimed at helping me with my other hobby which is growing oyster and shiitake mushrooms indoors. In a nutshell, the controller takes in two temperature readings, 1 Humidity reading and 1 Co2 reading and triggers a set of four relays connected to mains power. Intended […]

Cross-Stitched CMYK Alphabet

Evelin Kasikov‘s cross stitched CMYK alphabet: CMYK Alphabet is a typographic experiment, a set of 26 sans-serif uppercase letterforms on a grid of 5×5 inch. Each letter is hand embroidered using a combination of two overlapping CMYK colours. The colours are halftoned at 90 and 45 degrees and these low resolution screens are turned into […]

Arduino-based scooter computer

Arduino-based scooter computer

Kurt Schulz of Cincinnati, OH, wrote in with with his Scooterputer project, which uses a Duemilanove Arduino, a custom “sensor shield” and a Liquidware touchscreen OLED display to add functionality to his whip: * Battery voltage indicator * Time and date * Temperature * Lean gauge with resettable max L-R indicators * Current speed * […]

Summit of Awesome Coverage: Day 3 + Beyond

photo by Bettie Newell The third and final day of the Hello Craft Summit of Awesome started off with breakfast bright and early at 8:30 am, and then workshops and events began an hour later. This was another packed day with many, many cool things going on at each time slot, so choosing which sessions […]