Close ups with a digital camera
Rob took some photos through a microscope (without an adaptor) based on that post we had here – not bad! – Link.
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.
Ceiling art
This is a cool (morbid) idea for ceiling art – [via] Link.
Stereo microphone in a mint tin
Francisco writes “After searching for a suitable mic to record band practice with my LINE IN only (no mic input) minidisc, I decided to build one myself. The link shows photos of the finished project.” – Link.
Knit Houses
Andrea Tung of Making Things makes some interesting observations on the subject of knitting and how it’s popularity is expanding into other forms of expression. Here are two knit houses as art projects over the last few years. What does the concept of a knit house tell us? Do we need shelter and warmth? From […]
TV-Filter
Aram writes “TV-Filter allows you to downsample an ongoing TV signal to 6 by 8 pixels in real-time. A translucent projection screen is mounted on a 5 cm deep cardboard grid. The color and intensity of each pixel is determined by the corresponding part of the TV screen on the backside. The different color information […]
DIY Rainstick
Fibra has -another- neat project, this one is for building a DIY rainstick – “Rainstick originally comes form South American indians. They used to fill sun dried hollow cactus with small rocks, and stick its pins around cactus all the way down in form of a spiral. For homebuilt DIY rainstick you can use any […]
The Heatsink from hell
Jschuch writes “So, the title of the eBay auction was “large rectifier”, and sure enough the photo showed a couple of what appeared to be large heatsinks with stud diodes inbetween them. Opening bid was $0.99, and the seller is near my house (a clearance business that moves thousands of ebay lots per day) so […]
