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.

HOW TO – Make a simple belt

HOW TO – Make a simple belt

Saul writes – “This is a simple belt made from old Tie-Down webbing and a few D-Rings. I experimented with Comic Life, a mac app for writing comics from photo libraries to build the how-to.” – Link. Also, visit Howtoons – Link. Related: Comic Life, make your own comics – Link. MAKE audio interview with […]

HOW TO – Make a Night Writer

HOW TO – Make a Night Writer

Graffiti Research labs – getting your name up in lights – “The night writer extends the functionality of LED throwies by allowing a writer to catch a tag in lights. It’s cheap, easy to make and writes 12-inch glowing letters 25-feet in the air on any iron or steel surface…if you stand on a turned […]

More Nabaztag hacking…

More Nabaztag hacking…

It has begun. The WiFi robot bunny invasion. Toms Bunny writes in with more projects for the WiFi bunny – “My nabaztag dev site, I’ve created a gAIM plugin for the nabaztag and a UK lottery notifier (with some cunning crontab entries and PHP scripts)” – Link. Then head over to Ben Hammersley’s blog for […]

Pom-Pom Tutorial

Pom-Pom Tutorial

Pom-Poms are back “in” these days and if you ever want to master the art of making your own smaller pom-poms, Bella Dia has a great tutorial on how to do it. This is a fun way to embellish any of your craft projects whether you are making a laptop bag (nice to have colorful […]

Playstation 2 computational cluster

Playstation 2 computational cluster

Linux cluster, made from 65 PlayStation 2s! – “The NCSA has constructed a PlayStation 2 Linux cluster as a test bench for scientific computation on “toy” hardware. The cluster consists of 65 compute nodes, 4 user login and development nodes, and 1 prototype node for software installation tests. All the nodes run the Sony Linux […]