Owwwww, my head. I am still recovering from what will almost certainly be the best Elevensday celebration of my life. Unless I make it to 11/11/2111, that is. Fingers crossed. Anyway, to commemorate the event, and because Gronk think rainbows pretty, our featured image this week is johngineer’s 11.11.11. But it was a hard choice, because…
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: Winter Blue Tit Embroidery, by Handmade and Heritage Hand knitted, then felted, by Lettuce. Sewn Vader Sculpture, by Snaggs Miniature Pie, by Alliesminis YellowWatchPartsNecklace, by CLKcreative
We’ve featured lots of ways you can use embroidery hoops to decorate the walls in your homes here on Craft, but I love this latest take on them from Patty of P.S. it’s in the Details. See how she turned embroidery hoops into photo frames over on Paper ‘n Stitch.
Artist Erik Kessels created an exhibit, on display at Foam in Amsterdam, that is a massive collection of every photo uploaded to Flickr in a 24-hour period. It’s stunning to see the volume of images as they literally pile up almost to the ceiling and pour through multiple rooms. Through the digitalisation of photography and […]
This new camera, now available in the Maker Shed, can be a great addition to your project. It was designed to be used in security systems and does two main things – it outputs NTSC video and can take snapshots of that video and transmit them over the TTL serial link. You can snap pictures at 640×480, 320×240 or 160×120 and they are pre-compressed into JPEG images which makes them nice, small and easy to store on an SD card.
Need to keep the glare off your screen so you can get get your work done? Creative professionals have used monitor hoods for years in order to cut down glare from sources such as the sun and overhead lighting. Roger Sacul’s step-by-step instructions show you how to build one for yourself out of almost any ridged sheet material.
Another handy laser-cut design from British open-source kit-makers .:oomlout:.. DXF plans are available on Thingiverse, and a QuickTime sample of an object photographed with the turntable here.
