Crafter Jasna.Janekovic posted this impressive fabric basket in the Crafters Companion Flickr pool. Check out the group to see this and other photos posted by folks who’ve made projects from the great Anna Torberg-edited book The Crafter’s Companion. Link.
Mike writes – Do you like the idea of tesla coils and other high-voltage sparking stuff, but don’t have the time, money or patience to build something that elaborate? Here’s a fun little project that can make big, fat, noisy sparks at least 2 inches long, and can be built very quickly and cheaply. The […]
What are you looking at? Let’s have Maitreya from Craftlog explain: The Wikipedia Genetic code entry has a table to break the code or encode your own name (U=>T if you prefer DNA to RNA). Note that not all letters are represented since there are only 20 amino acids plus X for stop. You can […]
Here’s a prank-style kit from MadLab Electronics, the IR-ritator. Schematic included – A practical joke for playing on anybody who uses an infrared remote to control electrical equipment such as a television. The IR-ritator can jam a remote control and make it seem unreliable, and it can also record and mimic a remote control and […]
Hannah Fettig, author of the upcoming new book Closely Knit, shares with us her movie inspired knitting from the movie, About a Boy. This sweater is from the dead duck day scene and you can see the sweater in this music video for the movie by Badly Drawn Boy. Hannah writes: This sweater was a […]
Congratulations to Heidi Iverson who works at Knitterly in Petaluma, CA for winning the Softies Traveling Trunk Show! Heidi has been making softies for 4 years now and wanted the display to feel like a wonderland. Heidi says: I didn’t expect as many people to snatch things out of the window and then walk around […]
In an attempt to make the often crowded and unwieldy dance club scene more engaging, “Sonic WarGame” by Dutch musician and maker, Xavier Van Wersch, allows four single players or two teams of two players each to compete in a collaborative sound installation. The aim is to vote for other players (or musicians) using this […]
