Minnesota-based Make: Projects community member David Howard contributed a great how-to for making your own school mascot from scratch, complete with a cooling fan in the head piece to keep your furry mascot from overheating. Maybe your maker club or hackerspace needs a mascot too? Now you’ll know how to make one. Thanks, David!
Luke Jerram, familiar for his earlier works Glass Microbiology and Portrait-Projecting Ring, has now produced Talking Ring , which is essentially a silver Edison cylinder, cut and played back using custom equipment, which records a 20-second message of affection for his partner Shelina. [via Hack a Day]
Printed LED film from Sun-Tec Artist, teacher, technologist Christopher T. Palmer, aka “CTP,” was asking recently on the ThingM Sketching list, for suggestions of resources for a class he’s going to be teaching on “Active Wearable Objects.” He started to get a bunch of great input and so I asked him to compile it and […]
What possible secrets could Fluffy’s memory disc contain? Probably some choice thoughts on its owner’s choice of light-up apparel. Tron cat EL wire costume More: How-To: Tron Bag with EL Wire – CRAFT Video
French brand Faiyue is advertising their shoes with this stylized video portraying a make-your-own flying shoes kit. Expect cameos from hobby glue, an oscilloscope, and more. It portrays making as very hip, in a music video kind of way. [via Fashioning Technology]
After working all week on the Tron bag tutorial and video, I’m dressed to impress tonight with some EL wire on my knee brace. Some dude yelled at me for being in the front of the bus the other day, but it was because he couldn’t see my giant post-surgery knee brace under my long […]
Tote your Thinkpad and port your Apple in style with this custom TRON-inspired laptop bag tutorial and accompanying CRAFT video. With a little soldering and sewing skills you can have your own light up satchel, sure to impress geeky friends. So grab your sewing needle and soldering iron and follow along. This project is a […]
