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.
Barbara writes: “A couple of freshman roomates at MIT set up a full-fledged dorm room automation system, complete with voice activation, web control, touch screen controllers, a security system, fingerprint scanner, automatic blinds, screens with news feeds, etc, all actuated by a central “MIDAS” controller which they built and wrote the code for. Pretty cool […]
Earlier we posted about the what would make an ideal camera for documenting projects – remotely taking photos likely being the most important feature/mod. But, what if you’re going on a long trip and will not have access to a computer to take the photos off? Or worse, not being able to charge the camera. […]
Here’s a collection of some interesting vehicles, the mowercycle is rad – [via] – Link.
Stencil revolution shows you how to make a stencil from a color photo, using Photoshop GiMP/GiMPShop will work as well – [via] Link.
Here’s a cardboard TV box baby buggy – Thanks Mark! [via] – Link. Related: Other baby related projects and mods ;-] Link.
Alex sent in this short “make a record” article from Germany, it looks like they reproduced a record and the cloned copy lasts around 2 days, if anyone knows anything more about this, let us know, looks like a good project – Link & translated site.
TJIC at Technical Video Rental sent this one in and says, “We’re restarting our ‘interviews with hobbyists’ series. This week is an interview with Beki Gray, who makes glass beads by hand, using a torch. This series is going to be quite fun – we’ve already got two follow on interviews in the can with […]
