Tidal Kelp Wall Hanging
From the CRAFT Flickr pool comes this beautiful felted wall hanging by Yarnpunk. The background is beaded and stitched, with braided handspun for the edging and a driftwood hanging rod. Link.
Month: December 2007
Sequined Mushroom Ornaments
Poopscape shares a tutorial from a vintage craft book which details how to make these adorable clip-on mushroom ornaments. Link.
Glucoboy
I like this glucose tester for kids, the games that use test results as game points are brilliant – The Glucoboy is the first blood glucose meter that has been designed specially for kids, adolescents and the young at heart. By itself, the Glucoboy is an advanced blood glucose meter that is extremely accurate and […]
Fake window adds much needed light to bare walls
Another pretty simple day project. Affix some bright white LEDs to the inside of a venetian blind, add a timer switch, attach to a blank, empty wall in your house or apartment, and you instantly have a much psychologically larger living space. The “Bright Blind” by Makoto Hirahara will fool you into thinking that there […]
Counterfeit capacitors?
A Make reader sent this in — are these counterfeit capacitors?
Allison Kudla’s Green Machine
Allison Kudla has got a live tissue geometric design CNC up and running in New Orleans. It prints live material in patterns which then grow! – Link
Satellite dishes add fine art to bad TV
This project called “District Art” took place in an Arabic section of the Netherlands town of Utrecht where after noticing the amount of satellite dishes in the city, designers attempted to bring the population closer to each other. By adding decorative stickers to the dishes, each previously ugly eyesore was transformed into an icon of […]