The Milwaukee servo electric guitar requires no fretting or even tuning – that work is left to a team of servo motors mounting prominently on the bridge area – A servoelectric guitar is a fretless guitar that is played by controlling servomotors that change the tension of the strings over an octave or more on […]
Frostedminipete gears up for a proper day of learning with this enhanced backpack – Bet you’ve never seen anything like this before though, huh? Side pouches on my bookbag were a bit dull… so, the one I keep my water in now has a switch to make the water glow, and the other side has […]
Amy of “The Hook and I” made this adorable Happy Valentine’s Day crochet hat and shares her pattern so you can make one too. I love how she talks about the design process of creating this hat. She also includes a hand-written chart of the pattern, as well as a short video on how to […]
Last August, Marc wrote about Albert Hwang’s Wiremap display. It’s a 3D display technology which uses a standard projector to illuminate an array of vertical strings. The strings are carefully spaced so that a vertical row of pixels on the projector can illuminate a single string. This allows objects to be rendered in a three […]
Providence Daily Dose has the scoop on the upcoming Roller Races to benefit Recycle-a-Bike, Providence’s volunteer-run bicycle maintenance and education collective: What are roller races? Two riders at a time, sprint out 500m trials, on single speed track bikes strapped to a set of rollers. Rollers are wired up to an electronic clock that simulates […]
Amy from LucyKate Crafts shares her tutorial on how to make a felt and fabric love letter for your Valentine.
In May there will be an extended workshop in wearable art and interactive performance at Arizona State University: Workshop participants will explore emergent electronic technologies for performance and installation framed by the theme Lunar Outpost. Interactive technologies offer the means to extend, manipulate, and add color to our environments in a new manner. Workshop participants […]
