There’s been an awful lot of inspirational workspaces on craft websites recently, which make me hate my workspace more. I’m useless at keeping it tidy, there’s always scraps of paper and thread all over my desk, and abandoned ideas and letters pile up wanting attention but rarely getting any. One of the ideas I’ve liked [...]
This week I have been trying to become bestest friends with my scalpel, which so far has gone relatively well as I have yet to draw blood. As I’m pretty much starting out, I’ve decided to concentrate on simple shapes and repetitive patterns, more organic designs can come when I’m more comfortable with mister scalpel. [...]
What do you do when you’re running out of conductive thread and sparkfun deprived you on their free day? (Yes, I’m still bitter about it.) Get some copper tape off ebay and make some paper circuits. It’s what I did anyway. Here’s my first little experiment, I cut some copper tape into thin strips and [...]
I’ve managed to find quite a few interesting videos on some of the craft websites that I follow this week, the first is from Craftzine, on a magical adventure to MIT. I want to go live there!! Some really nice projects are going on there at the moment, like the electric wallpaper, wearable simon game [...]
I don’t really ever make new year resolutions. I don’t ever feel the need to eat ridiculously healthily or detox and I haven’t really got any bad habits I should give up to make myself healthier (apart from maybe my raving sugar addiction, but I ain’t giving that up.) but I am making some plans [...]
Today I started working on some paper projects, making a little paper wing for my first little prototype. My hope is that I’ll be able to make a whole bunch of models, cards or maybe even build your own killer robot kits, made from paper of possibly felt. How can all this shiny technology be [...]
Looking at these pictures and videos of Jie Qi’s computational pop up book made me die a little on the inside. In a good way. It just seems that much of a perfect idea to me. Blue pop-up page from Jie Qi on Vimeo. It is an awesome design on so many levels, it’s made [...]
