It was fun to see everyone this past weekend at the Maker Faire CRAFT area! Thanks to everyone who stopped by and said hi. I worked the booth with Tina Barseghian our new Editor in Chief of CRAFT and Becky Stern, fellow CRAFT blogger. In the area we had lots of crafty demos every hour […]
Daisy Janie shows you the steps on how to refashion a bandana shirt/dress for girls.
KBang on BurdaStyle has a tutorial on how to sew a quick, easy, and flattering faux-smocked dress or as the title of her project states “eight dollar dress”. I love the simplicity of it and how you can vary it with different fabric prints, add straps, or pockets.
This musical robot analyzes the incoming audio and tries to mimic it using a series of servos and solenoids attached to different objects. In this example it is trying to reproduce a clip from Citizen Kane. Simple automatic instruments are constructed from local materials and objects on site. The system learns the sounds it can […]
Ikea Hacker posted a roundup of chair upholstery projects. Many of the projects include instructions. The Kip Chair (left) takes minutes and only costs an old t-shirt.
Mutantcarrot posted instructions on Cut Out + Keep on how to mod your shoes by painting them. Give your old shoes new life with a paint job. For more shoe mod ideas, check out Craft Volume 07.
Another semester’s worth of cool microcontroller projects has come to a close at Cornell University and Bruce Land sent us the results for the Spring 2008 ECE 4760 course: Students in ECE 4760 at Cornell University were given the responsibility of choosing, designing and building a project using Atmel Mega32 microcontrollers. Over 30 projects this […]
