While there is considerable debate whether or not QR Codes will “catch on”, they are beginning to show up in more and more places. Although a code can store as many as 4,096 characters of text in any format, QR codes are most commonly used to provide easy access to a web address. It makes [...]

In honor of Bastille Day, we chose today to launch our Kickstarter project to bring the Eiffel Towers into full production. If you like the project, and would like to see it widely available, please check it out. Kickstarter is an all-or-nothing crowd funding site. If you like a project, you can pledge your support [...]

Artifacture hosted it’s first laser party last week, and it was a rousing success with about 15 people in attendance. 

If you have always wanted to have something laser cut but didn’t know how or where to go, now is your chance.  Seeing how a manufacturing process works first-hand is the best way not only to learn how to design for it, but how it can be leveraged to create new things. It is also [...]

Harbor Freight, bazaar of wonders.  Purveyors of tools of all stripes, from the worthless to the sublime.  If you want a tool, they will have some version of it.  Some are inexpensive wonders, as good or better than their more expensive peers.  Others, worth exactly what you pay for them – which isn’t very much.  [...]

When we started working with Dallas Designing Dreams, Arthur brought us pieces of a few different types and colors of leather to play with.