LED high heels
Remember L.A. Lights? Looks like they’re all grown up, as Rodarte uses LED shoes in their Fall 2010 collection. [via Fashioning Technology]
Month: March 2010
Dirt-cheap robotics prototyping environment with Android
Tim Heath and Ryan Hickman’s Truckbot could be built for under $20 (excluding mobile). That’s pretty impressive for such an open and accessible robotics prototyping environment. Using a laser-cut cardboard chassis, $3 micro servos, and a bare bones Arduino, the duo have assembled one of the cheapest platforms to come along in some time.
Time-lapse teen-built trebuchet
In honor of both DIY Movie Making Month and our ongoing love affair with simple machines that hurl stuff, Jeff DelPapa, founder of NERDS (The New England Rubbish Deconstruction Society), sent us a link to this time-lapse video of a group of teens building a trebuchet. Jeff describes the video as “stone-simple…120x real-time, using a […]
Biomechanical steampunk taxidermy
We have blogged about American assemblage artist Ron Pippin’s work before, with a focus on his wunderkammer pieces. But he’s been busy since then. Fair warning: Much of Pippin’s work uses real animal parts, and although I personally find it very beautiful, some viewers may be disturbed and/or offended. [via The Automata / Automaton Blog]
How-To: Easy Fern Stitch
The Hand Embroidery Network has a simple and beautiful tutorial for the fern stitch. The steps are clear, the photography is great, and the result is lovely.
LED Handshake Mitten
Catarina Mota put up a nice tute on creating a handshake-sensitive mitten which senses high-fives and hand-holding, too. It’s a simple circuit suitable for wearable tech beginners! [via Fashioning Technology] More: LED Firefly Baby Booties Tutorial Electronic Embroidery – CRAFT Video
Maker Business: Advice on Reaching Escape Velocity
Steve Roberts is a maker OG (original gangsta). With his amazing Winnebiko and BEHEMOTH projects, and his longtime evangelizing of “high-tech nomadness,” he’s been a leading light in the maker movement for decades. I definitely count him as one of my great inspirations in pursuing artful-engineering (or is it engineered artfulness?) as a lifestyle. Steve […]