#craft (9 links)
- Tool Shaped Objects minutes.substack.com
I want to talk about a category of object that is shaped like a tool, but distinctly isn’t one. You can hold it. You can use it. It fits in the hand the way a tool should. It produces the feeling of work-- the friction, the labor, the sense of forward motion-- but it doesn’t produce work. The object is not broken, it is performing its function. It’s function is to feel like a tool.
What makes this particularly difficult to see is that LLMs are also, genuinely, tools. They do real work. The line between the tool and the tool-shaped object is not a line at all but a gradient, and the gradient shifts with every use case, every user, every prompt. You can only fail to notice when you have crossed from one side to the other.
- Competence as Tragedy crowprose.com
What does it mean to keep practicing a craft you love when you suspect it's dying?
Spend money on tools, basically.
- Mini Indoor Herb Garden - Instructables instructables.com
- Aniomagic - button schemer™ aniomagic.com
Helps you easily make interactive arts and craft. You can quickly make a bracelet that changes color when shaken, a pet collar that blinks in the dark, or a dress that twinkles when you get a phone call. Weave it into tapestry, or make a custom bike light.
- Formula Onederland deathtotheflippers.com
"So, some of us guys and gals at Poke have started up a little club we call ‘Stuff Club’, in which we make stuff, y’know - for fun. The first thing we’ve made was actually a request by the Poke elders to do some kind of alternate Christmas tree for the office. So, naturally, we built a 8 foot square Alpine village (known as the Black Forest Ghetto) featuring a totally sweet Scalextric set with tunnels, bridges, mountains and sound reactive lights in all the trees and lil’ houses (they react to the music thats pumped out of the amp and speakers hidden in the base unit)." Hurrah for The Flippers.
- MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Use "Furoshiki" (cloth gift wrapping) blog.makezine.com
"The Ministry of the Environment Government of Japan has a guide (PDF) on using cloth as opposed to paper for wrapping gifts to cut down on the wasted paper usually used in gift wrap." Next year.