This backpack has me majorly crushing: Bet you’ve never seen anything like this before though, huh? Side pouches on my bookbag were a bit dull… so, the one I keep my water in now has a switch to make the water glow, and the other side has an Atari Punk Console housed in it. The […]
As the official Coraline movie web site loads, words are displayed that are likely to intice any crafter. “You are about to enter a world where everything you see has been created by hand.” And as the site completes it’s loading, “The glue is still drying. Enjoy.” Coraline, the stop-motion movie based on the book […]
Wow! Hannah Perner-Wilson made this really avant-garde neck-stroking wearable electronic feather device, and made a how-to on Instructables.
Collin @ MAKE writes: No, it’s not just a cute lil’ change purse – Arlie and Jared’s sewn-circuit softsynth combines crafty and noisy in a unnassuming portable package with a snap switch and conductive fabric. In the Maker Shed: Lilypad E-Sewing Kit
Brian @ MAKE writes: Matt Cottam wrote in with this cool project he made for Papercamp. He started with patterns from The American Girl’s Home Book of Work And Play by Helen Campbell (1890) and cut them on a laser cutter on 300gsm paper. Matt brought the images into Illustrator, and traced their outlines with […]
This installation by Magdalena Kohler and Hanna Wiesener called “Gelsomina” records your voice and knits the waveforms of the sound on a knitting machine controlled by 24 servos. We posted about this back in 2007, but its worth another mention. I just got an electronic knitting machine and I can’t wait to dig in and […]
Georgia Tech grad student Matt Gilbert has been making some awesome crochet from a pattern generator he made, finding inspiration in acoustics. He and I share a strong opinion that computing and iterative crafting (crochet, knitting, weaving, etc.) have much in common. He writes: While the Jacquard Loom allowed for the beautiful and elaborate patterns […]
