Collin @ MAKE writes: This chic pet-substitute responds to touch with pulsing blue LED ‘eyes’ and a purring effect courtesy of Lilypad vibrating motor boards. The Cat Bag / Cuddle Bag was created as part of the ‘Designing Hybrid wearables’ workshop at Mediamatic Amsterdam. This bag would be good when traveling without a beloved pet, […]
Here’s a new instructable I made for fffffatlab on how to create embroidery designs using images on your computer screen. The resulting grafitti tag style patches are also for sale in the fffffat etsy shop.
Leah Buechley, a PhD student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is well known for her electronic clothing–just take a look at the LED shirt project she did for CRAFT:01. Her signal jacket (above) for cyclists seems like such a fantastic invention that should be made by all you bikers out there and adopted […]
Evie S. has made this legal-sized template for dressing up a paper CD case. I wrap CDs in recycled paper all the time, and even just the shape of this template makes it a touch classier – Link.
MP4 Video | QT Video | HD | Subscribe in iTunes This week’s CRAFT Video Podcast is the first in a two part series on how to make intarsia/stranded knitting pattern from an image in Photoshop. We’ll go from an old skeleton illustration to a gridded knitting pattern for personalizing your own Skeleton Cardigan. Next […]
Capt. Sideburns on LiveJournal made this awesome butcher block cutting board with coloring to make pixel art of a Space Invader. – [via] Link.
The Toronto Star writes: WhalePower Corp. of Toronto has spent the past year gathering data on how its new bumpy-edged blade design, which mimics the way tubercle-lined humpback flippers move through water, can improve wind turbines and fans. “What the tubercles do is make the fan quieter, more efficient, and they’re better at pushing down […]
