Faythe and Kim from Milwaukee’s Paper Boat Boutique were recently interviewed on Heart Handmade, and it’s great reading for anyone who might be interested in opening their own shop–or for anyone looking to submit their work to an indie boutique.
Mary Ellen points us to a lovely article in the New York Times about food sculpture, which has become so popular in the last few years that the Salon of Culinary Art has made a special category just for “produce art.” Check out the incredible slideshow including this scene of rats carved from taro root […]
Scaling up from the usual MIDI-to-solenoid designs – the Tonefloat milk/music delivery team plays the bottles while mobile. Originally commissioned by Walk the Plank for the inaugural and very first Manchester Art Car Parade, the ‘People’s Prize’ winner >> tonefloat
MAKE will be at HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth, July 18-20). We will be doing talks, having a mini-Maker Faire and I think this going to be one of the biggest tech-hardware-hacking conferences of the decade – here’s an announcment about the RFID they’ll be using during the event! This summer, hackers from around the […]
In his neverending quest to life off the grid, Mikey Sklar made a LED grow lamp from some LEDs, a power supply, and an old broiler pan, which functions as a heat sink. Mikey writes: A 33 watt grow light made from 19 blue and red LEDs. Each LED is glued onto a broiler pan […]
I’ve always been a fan of crochet designer Robyn Chachula who runs the blog, Crochet by Faye. Robyn’s started a new series, “Day in the Life”, starting with herself as she shares how she lives and works in her day in the life of a structural crochet engineer. If you’re a crafter who’s interested in […]
All toy instruments should have MIDI jacks – The idea was to take a child’s toy xylophone and get the computer to play it. Now I know that the computer is capable of making noises electronically but it is much more interesting to watch an instrument being automatically played. I am sure you have all […]
