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.
Geo’s Super-slim, cool-lookin, EMI-shielding wallet – “Ever get tired of carrying around a huge honkin’ leather wallet? Want to impress your hipster friends with your wacky style? Worried about your credit cards getting erased by all those stray electromagnetic fields you’ve been hearing about? Then this is the wallet for you.” Link.
Cat Morley has posted up a complete pattern for a skull and needles knitting bag on her site, Cut Out + Keep. A hip way to keep your knitting projects safe. There are lots of other crafty projects on the site too. Thanks Louise! Link.
Audio from the food hacking event we posted about earlier! “Would you trust a computer hacker to cook your dinner? What if the menu included dishes baked with lasers or served up in laboratory test tubes? A high-tech brand of haute cuisine called “molecular gastronomy” is gaining more than a few fans from the pocket-protector set, who have taken to experimenting at home in their kitchens and coming up with some extraordinary recipes and unexpected flavor combinations.” Link.
Katie says, “Keeping with the theme of craft sites, how about this site that has, amongst other things, a Bra Purse (yes, a purse made out of old bras , check out the rabid comments on that), a cozy to keep your IPod warm and snuggy, a sushi toilet roll cover, (you can’t eat it) and a coin purse made out of kool-aid wrappers.” Link.
“Mr. Anton Peterka along with his team, made his ’85 Yugo 45, using wood and coal for fuel. It’s not a new technology, 125 years old. The process is based on incomplete combustion of wood: due to lack of air, gases are created: carbon monoxide, the main fuels, hydrogen and methane. That mixture of gases is as flammable as gasoline fumes. To get the car moving, it is necessary to “fill it up with wood.” Thanks Nikitos! Link.
Paul writes “An engineering student at Mizzou has developed a system that allows users to create a 360 degree image in real time using only a standard digital camera. Users upload several images taken around an object, adjust playback options, and can download or save their picture cloud for free. The entire process takes place in the web browser, and can be accomplished in about 2 minutes.” Handy for selling stuff on eBay or documenting projects… Link.
Hans Schepker’s mathematically correct glass and sculpture site is an excellent read – “All my stained glass work is based on geometry. Yes, it is math I am talking about! The following lines are a short explanation of the shapes I work with and a bit of theory around them.” Thanks 