“Kniitiing” for the Wii
“Kniittiing” for the Wii? Seriously? The future is now! [via Lime & Violet]
Technology
Brother Quattro 6000D HD Sewing Machine
PT @ MAKE posted up this sweet sewing machine eye candy, the Brother Quattro 6000D HD.
Needle Felted Resistor
Moxie’s latest creation is this entirely needle felted resistor (with thin posable wires inside the leads)! It looks like 60k-ohms of joy to me. Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool. More: MAKE presents: The Resistor Knitted Resistor Free Pattern for Captain Capacitor
Packaging Lights by Anke Weiss
From Fidgety Fingers: Dutch Design Week: designer Anke Weiss has created a series of lights from used food and drink packaging. Weiss traces the patterns and text on the packaging with hundreds of pin-pricks, which allow the light to shine through. The lights were exhibited at Eat Drink Design in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week […]
Google Tea Towels
Thomson & Craighead created these Google tea towels: A beautifully crafted set of four tea towels sporting a series of authentic search engine results returned to a user when the criteria, ‘Please Help Me’, ‘Is Anybody there?’, ‘Please listen to me’ and, ‘Can you hear me?’ were entered into the search field, while using Google […]
Electronic Wallpaper
Leah Buechley is working on an installation at the Exploratorium in San Francisco with LilyPad Arduinos and conductive paint! The process photos look amazing, I can’t wait to see it when it’s done! In the Maker Shed: Lilypad E-Sewing Kit
Gingerbread House SketchUp Contest
Google’s having a SketchUp modeling challenge: the first annual Google SketchUp Gingerbread House Design Competition. From the Google blog: To make it a little easier to design the gingerbread house of your dreams, I modeled a blank house to get you started. Go ahead and download it from the 3D Warehouse, then follow the instructions […]
