Have you ever tried a DIY project only to have it turn out completely different….in a good way? That seems to be what happened to The 3 R’s when they attempted a Design*Sponge tutorial and ended up with this dynamic paper starburst pendant lamp.
Bolide is an amazingly intricate and stunningly beautiful motorcycle, from Kraus Motor Co, in Cazadero. You may recall seeing Satya Kraus working on the bike in the premire edition of our video series, Meet the Makers. Bolide just took 3rd place in the 2011 World Championship of Custom Bike Building. Every part of this bike […]
M Design of Montreal takes discarded furniture and hacks the disparate parts into new home furnishings in their “Project Scrap” series. We especially dig the bureau drawers flipped sideways and turned into shelving units. [via Dude Craft]
Jenny from Craft Test Dummies is always coming up with new and creative uses for any craft product that she gets her hands on. Case in point, her How to Cut Polymer Clay with the Cricut tutorial takes electronic cutters out of the realm of paper craft, and shows just how versatile they can be […]
The folks over at Threadless, in collaboration with Chicago Ideas Week, are looking for a great T-shirt design inspired by the concept of ideas to help celebrate this upcoming week-long festival this October. You can still submit a design until tomorrow, Aug. 11. Check out their web site for all the details.
This 3D flower wallpaper was created by Front, a Swedish (of course) design team. You could totally DIY this look by tacking down faux flowers in vertical stripes down your wall using simple cable tacks from your local hardware store. This could be a really cool effect. How would you spin it? Make it a […]
André Knörig of Fritzing wrote in to let us know that they’ve just released version 0.6.2 of their open source “tool that allows users to document their prototypes, share them with others, teach electronics in a classroom, and to create a pcb layout for professional manufacturing.” New features include support for SMD parts, a SparkFun parts library, and support for Stripboards. Check out the complete list of new features in their History of Changes or download the latest version on their download page.
