CRAFT Projects in Evernote
Check out the special CRAFT Project trunks in Evernote! Crafty recipes, sewing, and recycling projects are available. Works great on iPad, too (and my cat Beatrice approves)!
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How-To: EL Wire Hula Hoop
Going to Burning Man but still haven’t made any light-up accessories? It’s not too late! Instructables user “Danger is my middle name” made a tutorial for this EL wire hula hoop. More: Flashback: LED Hula Hoop In the Makers Market: LED hula hoop kits
Great Ditrigonal Icosidodecahedron Quilt
George Hart on Make: Online writes: The traditional craft of quilting can be used to make many mathematical forms. While quilters have always used geometry to work out repeating patterns, some modern quilters go further in using mathematical objects as the subjects of their quilts. Here are two impressive examples by Sarah Mylchreest and Mark […]
Barbie Video Girl Visits a Crafter
You might have seen over on Make our own Becky post about the Canon 7D vs. Barbie Video Girl video comparison video that just about all of my artist friends have e-mailed me. Well, a friend of mine picked one up after work yesterday and had it waiting to greet me at my desk this […]
This to That
This to That might be one of the best websites ever. To discover the perfect adhesive, just input the thing you have and the thing you wish to glue it to. But that’s not all! Do you get a headache when you use your hot glue gun? Need to glue your desktop down? What about […]
Learnings from BlogHer ’10: Intellectual Property
I attended some very informative sessions at BlogHer this month, one of which dealt with intellectual property and how you can be smarter about it. Among my circle of crafty friends, we talk about this a LOT. Take a look at this post I wrote for Handmade Detroit about the topic. Next up – blog […]
Reaction Lamp
The generative designers at Nervous System just blew me away for the 105th time with their Reaction Lamp: We created the lamp in Processing and it was 3d printed using Selective Laser Sintering in nylon plastic. We varied the material thickness to create an intricate effect when illuminated.