Best of CRAFT
Here are some of my favorite posts from the CRAFT blog this week: Soft Guitars Glow in the Dark Robot Pillow HOW TO – Multicolored Gocco Prints Cowboy Cookies Recipe Etsy’s July How-To Month
Month: July 2008
PSP hack mixes live sound editing and collection with GPS navigation
The “Oterp” by Antonin Fourneau is a prototype sound editor built inside a PSP console with an integrated GPS that allows you to manipulate sound in real-time based on your location on earth. The device also collects new sounds when it detects that you have arrived at specific pre-programmed locations on the planet, with the […]
Recycled plastic bottle sculptures resemble sea creatures
This used plastic water bottle lamp (one of a series of recycled lamps by Lisa Foo and Su Sim) resembles a sea creature from movies like “The Abyss” and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”. Really interesting craftsmanship with these lights that will really fool you into thinking they are made of more expensive materials. Check […]
Cheap oscilloscope built from Arduino and Processing
We’ve written about cheap oscilloscopes before, but this one uses two tools we blog about a lot here (Arduino and Processing) to visualize an analog signal on your computer. The resolution is 10 bits, so it’s not perfect, but it is pretty useful nevertheless with the code available from the link below. Poorman’s oscilloscope (with […]
Calling All Dallas/Ft. Worth Area Makers – Join Us for “An Afternoon at Maker Faire” on July 19th
Make Magazine, Craft Magazine and the Maker Faire team will be coming to Dallas to host an “Afternoon At Maker Faire” at The Museum of Nature and Science on Saturday, July 19th (from 9am – 5pm). We will bring together Dallas/Ft. Worth area Makers to exhibit their creative projects for a fun afternoon at the […]
Algorithm Ink and ContextFree.js – generative art with Javascript
Currently Firefox, Safari and Opera have reasonable support for the Canvas HTML element. With IE the only major remaining laggard, there are a lot of people starting to experiment with Javascript’s new graphical capabilities. I mentioned John Resig’s Processing.js library in May, and now Aza Raskin has released the ContextFree.js library, which brings another generative […]
Tord Boontje Rug
Bobby Solomon at the Kitsune Noir blog points out that there’s an article in Dwell on how the Little Field of Flowers rug by Tord Boontje is made. From this picture alone you can see how the die cut felt flowers are woven in to make a soft bed of pleasant shapes. (Thanks, Collin!)