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.
What do you get when you combine a capacitor, some LEDs, and a solar cell? A B.E.A.M. Bug Bot! B.E.A.M. stands for Biology Electronics Aesthetics Mechanics which means that the robots are inspired by biology which means bugs. Vic De Leon and Stewart Tansley, explained that the solar cell doesn’t put out enough power to […]
Hey Crafters! Big thanks to O’Reilly Editor Brian Sawyer for setting up our very own CRAFT flickr group! It’s up and running now, so please join! I’ve added in my Maker Faire Craft pics to the mix. Let’s see the cool projects you’re working on! Link.
Dozens of drawings all made with Microsoft Excel – Danielle writes – “Microsoft Excel is a program designed to track and compute information, but here I am using Excel as a drawing tool. These drawings are a part of a series of sixty drawings that I executed (more or less) every day for fifty-eight days. […]
PC Mag’s Bill Machrone thinks the Apple iPod Hi-Fi is a bit overrated, so he built his own version – all for about $50 Link.
This Sunday, go take some pinhole photos – “Worldwide pinhole photography day is an international event created to promote and celebrate the art of pinhole photography. On this unique day, we encourage people throughout the world – to take some time off from the increasingly technological world we live in and to participate in the […]
There really was something for everyone at the Maker Faire. Here at the Crafster.org’s Kitschy Craft Contest, this little lady was keeping herself very busy decorating her craft project. For the rest of the crowd, many poured through the aisles outside at Bazaar Bizarre snatching up Mother Day’s gifts or to meet their crafting idols. […]
Just proof that everyone loves DIY, Daryl Hannah spent some time at the Swap-O-Rama-Rama at the Maker Faire working with CraftyBitch’s Andrea DeHart to refashion a black slip into a “sassy cocktail dress”. Also, see some of the amazing transformations that day of frumpy muumuu’s remade into cute summer dresses. More post Maker Faire coverage […]
