Collin @ MAKE points us to this felt IC from the MAKE Flickr pool by Origamiwolf: The various traced out parts are then scaled to the desired size, and borders then added for the seams. The chip is padded out with a rectangular foam block, and folded-up strips of aluminium foil are used to strengthen […]
Dorkbot Bristol members David Henshall and John Honniballmade this robot that makes crafts: wire snowflakes! Machine Craft Experiment: Generative Manipulated Wire Forming to make unique snow flakes Machine processes are commonly additive or subtractive, while manipulating materials is more commonly associated with hand crafts such as weaving or basket making. This experiment is intended to […]
I love this awesome Jawa doll with LED eyes from Bitter Betty Blogs. She’s created a pattern for download and personal use.
Mitchell Whitelaw over at The Teeming Void has a great post about his 3D-printed weather data bracelet. The bracelet is beautiful (if a little prickly), but it gets its meaning from the data embedded in it. The peaks are the temperature highs and the troughs are the lows from a year’s worth of data in […]
What a lovely video about animating textiles with SMA (shape memory alloys aka “muscle wire”), which expants and contracts when varying currents are passed through it. These are studies in the field by Lynda Fletcher, a student at Central Saint Martins. [via Fashioning Technology]
Have your open source cake and eat it too with this Arduino cake, made by Massimo Banzi’s students at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. [via adafruit] More: CRAFT Video: LilyPad Arduino 101
If you’d like to add a little tech to your tree this year, check out this illuminated snowflake ornament tutorial from Syuzi Pakhchyan.
