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.
Here’s a simple and fun project to do with Google maps and Flickr. Flickr member iDanSimpson has a step by step on taking a screenshot of a location, zooming out and using the build in slideshow to make a little view of just how small things are. It’s much like a DIY “Powers of 10”. Link.
Here’s a great guide on making all the cool retroy pixel graphics. “Each separate IPA image is always going too made up of single computer generated blocks, known as pixels. Each pixel is the same size as any other pixel, but it can be any colour you can think of and it can fit together with other pixels, any way you can think of. You can think of a pixel-based image as you can a mosaic in real life that is made up of tiles to form an overall picture”.Link.
The future of music mixing and sampling is here. It’s going to be around a ping pong table, with headbands…”We were playing ping pong with paddles that had piezo sensors in them. When the paddles hit the ball, they would actuate the starting and ending points of a sample – so the faster we played, the more ‘frantic’ the sonic output. It was a fun piece.” Link.
This is a pretty neat project from Mauricio Melo (there isn’t a how-to but I think it’ll be easy to replicate) It’s a networked emoticon device. You log onto it through the Internet and let your other significant at home know if something at work or at school has made you happy, sad, so-so, or upset. The devices are connected to the Internet through an Xport controlled by a Microchip that handles the basic communications. A series of switches reciprocally activate four LEDs that light the transparent emoticons. Via WMMNA. Link.
All the cool kids in the Shire are tagging it up with Moss Graffiti, maybe not- but here’s how to make Moss graffiti. Ingredients: 1 can of beer, 1/2 teaspoon of sugar and several clumps of garden moss. There’s a neat spot in the backyard here, I’m going to try it out and post up pictures. Might make some neat art. Link.
Maybe we can get the 3D printer guy to hang out with the 3D scanner fellow and we’ll be another step closer to replicators. Here’s a 3D laser scanner using a Quickcam Pro 4000 camera, s100 SMS controller card and LSG 35 geared motor. Link.
This is a pretty sweet looking project- Mavromatic has made a DIY weatherproof outdoor camera rig to take time-lapse photos of a house being built using an Axis Cam, Linksys WET11 and a super circuits heated camera enclosure. As an added bonus the entire neighborhood got free wifi, part II of the article is supposed to be up next week. Link.
