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.
Mark writes “Here’s how to convert old obsolete 1950’s era Polaroid 110a cameras into semi-proffesional, full manual, large format work horses. The site describes the process of converting these cheap old cameras to accept easily available modern pack film. There are lo-fi methods and is mainly directed toward poor starving photographers or college students who can not afford a Litman 45 single.” Link.
Giles writes “Step by step, do it yourself, super 8 telecine – How to make Super 8 movies into digital files for the cost of an old projector, a big lens and some bits from the local electronics store!” Link.
Candy Addict writes “A blog from The National Association of Manufacturers where they post videos of things being manufactured commercially. There are some really interesting videos!” Here’s a post (with video) on how the Just Born candy company makes their treats. Link.
How to make the sunrise in your bedroom every morning. Many artists have used the Camera Obscura over the years, now make your own. – an optical experiment easy to do, but which, in spite of its simplicity, is able to give you a continuous marvel. What you have to do is simply mount a lens on the bedroom window. In this way, when you wake up in the morning, you will admire the outside scene projected on a wall of your bedroom. Link.
“…construction of a very simple low-cost compound microscope. As shown in Figure 1, the microscope we describe is one that just about anyone can build and will produce a magnification of about 75 times. Microscopes may be thought of as very intricate and mysterious instruments but in reality, they are not as complicated as one may think. Building this simple instrument is not only a fun project, it will help you understand how microscopes work.” Thanks Rick! Link.
Readmechs are printable (8.5″ x 11″) little paper box creatures and novelties like UK Johnny, Astro Julie, Pal 9000, Papercut of death, Skeletron and other clever designs surely to delight a drab cubicle. Link.
Stunning collection of jewelry made from electronic parts. Capacitor necklaces, diode earrings, Cat5 bracelets – my fav “1.1MΩ Purple Resistor Necklace: Necklace created from 32 1.1MΩ resistors, their leads wrapped four times around a central ring to create this pattern, with additional resistors accenting the edges.” [via] Link.
