Hi Crafters! I’m speaking a month from now at the CHA Winter Convention in Anaheim, CA. (If you don’t know, CHA is the Craft & Hobby Association and the Winter Convention is one of the largest events of the year bringing together craft businesses.) My session, “The Indie-Craft Revolution!” will be on Saturday, February 9th […]
Telstar Logistics writes – While paying a visit to the studio of San Francisco artist Alanna Spence recently, Telstar Logistics was introduced to a lost gem of a book called “Flight thru Instruments.” Flightthruinstr09_2 Published as a pilot-training manual by the US Navy in 1945, “Flight thru Instruments” teaches proper aeronautical navigation techniques through the […]
Interesting touch-sensitive mixers with a LED matrix under the faders, Soundwidgets writes – The Stribe’s original name was “xenome” – a nod to Brian Crabtree’s amazing monome 40h project, which inspired me to build the first Stribe in the summer of ’07. For many years, I’d been thinking about and experimenting with alternative interfaces, but […]
The neighborhood where I live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn has a really high concentration of crafty people and shops. I started visiting these people so I can share their stories and work with the readers of the Craft blog. Up first… Wendy Yang of Maiden Hong Kong. Maiden Hong Kong is a really cute store on […]
Andrew writes – A while back, Roo Reynolds posted about his experiments with Reactivision. Reactivision is a really neat way of building what’re called tangible user interfaces; it’s a bit of software which reads in video being captured by a webcam and tracks the position (and rotation) of special blobs called “fiducial markersâ€. In other […]
My favorite crafty blogger, Elsa Mora, made this dress to wear to an upcoming fancy event. She got the idea to make it, posted pictures of the fabric and less than two weeks later finished this amazing dress. Link.
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories write – After more than a year of painstaking directed research by our Experimental Foods Division, we have finally achieved one of our most important longstanding goals: the production of edible googly eyes. Like many other great inventions, it seems almost simple in retrospect, but in this write up we walk […]
