From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
Twinkle toes! Make LED ruffles to customize your shoes in this CRAFT tutorial by Becky Stern. This easy soft circuit project can get you started in wearable electronics and uses the LED Sewing Kit available in the Maker Shed. Check out the full step-by-step: http://makeprojects.com/Project/LED-Shoe-Clips/1178/1
Did you know that you can develop your own black and white film with instant coffee, vitamin C, and washing soda? In this how-to, Matt Richardson walks you through making and using your own developer, which has come to be known as “caffenol.”
For more information, check out: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/07/skill-builder-caffenol-homebrew-film-developer.html
Becky Stern shows you how to embed a device to power down TVs in public places into a jacket, activated by a conductive thread zipper switch. More info: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/06/tv-b-gone_jacket.html Music by i am jen.
Matt shows you how to create a cool photographic effect by making shapes out of the out of focus points of light in an image. For more information, check out: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/06/how-to-bokeh-photography-effect.html
Sung Kim’s father gave him his first skil saw when he was just seven years old. His mother provided him with modeling clay as a safer alternative not long after that. Sung’s grandfather-in-law, ship builder Dean Stevens, left him a coveted collection of hand tools decades later. These influences shaped his abilities as a woodworker, but his desire to create sound formed him into a Maker.
Sung Kim, his collection of instruments, and a very ambitious secret project will be at Maker Faire Bay Area, May 21 & 22. There you can hear Sung perform and bask in the intricate structures of his Sympathetic Cannon, The Si-Tarzan, and the Ox.
Mod your DSLR camera’s body cap so that you can shoot digital pinhole photos, HDR, time lapse or even pinhole video!
For more information about this project, check out:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/03/how-to-dslr-pinhole-photography.html
Learn to recycle a broken bike inner tube into a chain-link headband, necklace, or belt! Becky Stern shows you how. Britt McMaster designed this project for her blog, cucumbersome.com. Head on to craftzine for more details: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/03/bike_tube_headband.html
