DIY Smart Phone Mittens
You wouldn’t be long getting frostbit digits trying to text without these smart phone mittens from Becky Stern over at adafruit!
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How I Made My $250 Robotic Arm
Since an accident with a hydraulic press 12 years ago, I wear a myoprosthesis — an electrical hand that I can control by muscle sensors. I tried them all, but even $50,000 models were lacking. But after a chance encounter at a local hackerspace in France, I decided to 3D print my own prosthetic.
Launching the Latest Issue of Make: Magazine with a Bright and Shining Wearables Meetup
The Make: staff celebrated the release of our latest issue, Make: Volume 43 last night at our Wearable Electronics Meetup. Located in the Maker Media Lab which is housed in the Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco, we frolicked amongst tables full of tech. 3D printers hummed while people compared and shared their various wearable […]
3D Print These Custom Cars And Race Them On Your Tabletop
Bridging the gap between the virtual world and the real world is a popular topic these days. Augmented reality, Google Cardboard, and games like Skylanders are just a few products that allow us to interact in both the physical and virtual. Now, 3DRacers hope to send your Mario Kart addiction into the real world. 3DRacers […]
Trucker Uses Raspberry Pi to Connect his Big Rig
When Andy Proctor, a truck driver and web developer in the UK, was dissatisfied with his company’s tracking system, he hacked his truck. Called the iDataTruck, it tweets the status of his truck directly to his office. (Follow it at @iDataTruck.) “The company does have a tracker system,” says Proctor, “but we still have to […]
Sci-Fi Wearables: Four Futuristic Projects You Can Make Today
Think back to your first wearable tech experience: maybe it was the communicator badges in Star Trek, the palm flower crystals in Logan’s Run or the man-turned-machine in Terminator. These devices could simplify communication, monitor life functions, or even transform physical bodies. We all loved it, and we’re still seeking it. We want science fiction to be real […]
An Illustrated Guide to Wearable Components
Bodies aren’t static, they don’t have straight lines, and after a while they tend to get dirty. So wearable systems embedded in garments and accessories have to be robust, flexible, and, ideally, washable (or at least removable). Here’s a look under the hood — or hoodie, as it were — at the main components of wearable devices.