This is awesome, just straight up awesome. Angela Sheehan posted her giant LilyPad pillow in the CRAFT pool, and it’s just about the best ever. Check out her blog, Soft Circuit Saturdays for more deets, great photos, and a comical side-by-side size comparison.
All Hands Active is a massive collaboration of makers who brought a creative free-for-all to Maker Faire Detroit. They called it Wreck Lab, and it was just that. Kids got to tear apart all sorts of junked technology to learn more about how things work. Tons of children who came by the booth donned safety […]
When I was a child, I inhabited a fantasy playland that existed only in my mind. (Yes, I still spend much of my time there.) If only I had Photoshop to bring my magical visions to life! Forty-two roads took her daughter’s crafty creative play to a whole new level.
Can’t say you can do the same with CDs! Data on records is stored in grooves on the surface of the vinyl, so you can duplicate a record using this casting technique. [via Make: Online] More: Intern’s Corner: How-To: Cast yourself in plastic Fun with Casting Resin Lost Wax Casting Casting Resin Rings – CRAFT […]
I’m fascinated by the process for creating these ghostly photographs that are featured over on Photojojo. Aditya Mandayam developed this exciting new way of making prints: press photo-paper against your laptop screen, flash the screen, and dip the paper in developer, stop, and fix. Read more about these Laptopograms on Photojojo and view more of […]
Embroidered Digital Commons is a participatory artwork facilitated by Ele Carpenter. You can sign up to embroider a patch of text for display at the AND Festival in Manchester UK this coming October: The Embroidered Digital Commons is a collectively stitched version of the Raqs Media Collective’s text ‘A Concise lexicon of / for the […]
MAKE and CRAFT author Andrew Lewis writes: We’re all working on some pretty cool projects over here at the moment, but this Arduino powered sewing machine is my personal favourite. I took an old zigzag sewing machine and kitted it out with servos to control the needle position and fabric feed. CNC sewing machine
