This week’s Weekend Project on MAKE is this funky-cool electric cigar box guitar. Most of the construction is very crafty, and there’s only a little soldering involved! You could always make it just acoustic, too. Check out the video and PDF instructions.
Last week I reviewed a new primer for design, Digital Textile Design, written by Melanie Bowles and Ceri Isaac (Laurence King Publishers). This week we have an excerpt to share: a tutorial on making custom plaid.
One of my favorite soft circuit mavens, Hannah Perner-Wilson, has teamed up with Mika Satomi to bring you a new site called How to Get What You Want, a container site for all the totally rad projects they’ve been cranking out recently. Bookmark their site for your reference, I know I just did. I love […]
Gareth @ MAKE points us to an awesome new resource for soft circuits and other electronic wearables called Open Softwear, produced by folks associated with K3, the Malmรถ University School of Arts and Communication in Sweden. I’m digging the simple illustrations and easy-to-follow examples. Downlowd the free PDF to get started. More: CRAFT Video: LilyPad […]
Japanese artists’ Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi have created an “esoteric” programming language called Pa++ern that translates input from visitors to their exhibit or from virtual visitors through Twitter and turns them in to graphics that can be embroidered on t-shirts. Visitors to the gallery enjoy the movement and sounds of this highly used but […]
I’m so in love with this circuit board latch hook rug from Red Tarts, I’m not sure what more to say other than … wow.
iPhone-owning Little Big Planet fans rejoice, this felt Earth wallpaper is for you. Via BBG.
