A Beautiful Sight to See Through: The Hard and Unusual Craft of Stained Glass
Students cut glass and solder to create stained-glass windows at Spokane’s On Track Academy
Craft & Design
From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
Brigitte Kock’s 3D Printed Textiles Have Us Re-Thinking Design
I stumbled onto a really fascinating series of TikToks on designing a 3D printed corset with fully 3D printed connectors and everything. You can see in the TikTok embedded above, how there are neat little ball and hole style connectors that hole the whole thing together, and that is where things get really interesting. Brigitte […]
AI Tools You Can Use Right Now
Here’s a list of tools you can use right now to experiment with the most cutting-edge computer brains available.
Generative AI for Makers: AI Has Truly Arrived — and It’s Here to Help You Make and Craft
Here’s a quick primer on how generative AI works, how you can use it, and what it means for creators.
Perform A Brain Transplant On A See-N-Say To Add Custom Sounds
Hacking childhood toys is somewhat of a maker’s rite of passage around here. John Park over at Adafruit has made a habit of it for many years though. His latest, he shows how to transplant the brain of a See-N-Say to have your own custom messages. This update really modernizes things. Instead of a plastic […]
Nerd Out about Music with us on January 26th
A new year means new Hangout & Nerdout topics, and we’re kicking off 2023 with a theme we know you’ll love: Music! We can’t wait for you to nerd out with synth maven Thea “Stargirl” Flowers! You’re going to love hanging out with Erik Oostveen while he shares his open-source music gadgets. And we’re overjoyed […]
Embedded LEDs Make The Coolest Birthday Cake You’ve Ever Seen
Natasha Dzurny turned out this really cool project for Element 14. In short, she makes a birthday cake shaped display using flexible LED matrixes. Inspired by Lizzo’s birthday anthem, Natasha decided to make a whole party in the shape of a cake. She started with an Arduino Nano 33it and two LED matrixes and ended […]
