Apparently it’s Soft Circuit Monday here at MAKE (coindidentally), so here’s another one: the LED kimono is by composer and performance artist Miya Masaoka and has 444 LEDs on the kimono sleeve which display animations. [via Fashioning Technology]
Ann of All Things Paper created this beautiful, modern-looking Christmas tree with simple quilling techniques. The tree was loosely inspired by a rubber stamp design that caught my eye. Each branch is a shaped coil of 1/8 inch quilling paper. I outlined the burgundy ornaments with silver-gilded paper for a bit of shine and also […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Swinz built a rather convincing elevator-style control panel just for the heck of it – I’ve recently completed a device that I’ve been idly threatening to make for years. This is a device that has no purpose other than entertainment, and it’s fairly limited in that regard too. It was […]
What a lovely video about animating textiles with SMA (shape memory alloys aka “muscle wire”), which expants and contracts when varying currents are passed through it. These are studies in the field by Lynda Fletcher, a student at Central Saint Martins. [via Fashioning Technology]
After reading all the comments to last week’s post about this awesome offer of free tickets to the Metropolitan Opera, I seriously considered calling them up and asking for 55 or so pairs of tickets. But I don’t want to shoot my own foot (or the feet of our readers), so we picked two winners […]
A special Blip Festival edition of NYC’s Handmade Music this Wednesday – Babycastles teams up with Handmade Music Night for the inaugural opening of a permanent indie games arcade in Brooklyn. 915 Wyckoff Street, L to Halsey or M to Myrtle / Wyckoff. (map below) This opening celebrates Adam Atomic’s Canabalt (NYC), Ivan Safrin’s Owl […]
Gareth Pugh, an English fashion designer, made this OLED armor dress using fabric layered with “flexible” OLEDs. Seems like we’ve got a ways to go with this one, and that OLEDs might have better applications on harder wearables like motorcycle Daft Punk helmets. [via Fashioning Technology]
