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Join Dale Dougherty and Kate Hartman, author of Make: Wearable Electronics, for a discussion on the intersection of tech, fashion, and art!

Dale Dougherty and Make: Wearable Electronics author Kate Hartman welcome you to the amazing world of wearable electronics, where tech and fashion combine to explore art, style, utility, and new forms of human interaction!

Kate is the founding director of Social Body Lab, a creative technology research group based out of OCAD University in Toronto, where she also serves as an associate professor. Make: recently published a new edition of her book, which teaches everything from choosing the right materials for a wearable-electronics project to explaining how components can be combined to create dynamic costumes and couture.

Dale and Kate will explore the wearable-electronics world, including key breakthroughs, creative uses by amateur and professional makers, and how technology—and the applications of technology—have evolved to make wearables an increasingly accessible and intriguing experimental field.

Get your copy of Make: Wearable Electronics, 2nd Edition, in the Maker Shed!

Make: Wearable Electronics (Print)

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Join Dale Dougherty and Steph Piper, author of Skill Seeker Maker Edition, for a talk on tracking your growth and leveling up your skills!

Join Dale Dougherty and Steph Piper, author of Make: Skill Seeker Maker Edition, for a talk on tracking your growth and leveling up your skills. In a world where there are an overwhelming amount of things to do, Maker skill trees are the perfect way for makerspaces and individuals alike to represent and identify maker skills, from learning a new tech skill like 3D printing to traditional handiwork like sewing. What if we could gamify these parts of life and gain experience points for learning or doing something new? Skill Seeker does just that in a choose-your-own-adventure-style goal-setting guidebook.

Video games are famous for skill trees: A mechanism to visually see your progress, calculating your experience points and showing your level, unlocking badges and new abilities. Skill Seeker puts the concept of skill trees into real life. Featuring pathways to leveling up across 15 skill areas, including 3D modeling, crafting, electronics, entrepreneurship, metalworking, robotics, and woodworking.

Use powerful gamification techniques of badging and leveling to your advantage to motivate a new stage of growth in your chosen skill areas. Show off your Life XP (experience) score, a tally of every tile completed across key areas, plus a dashboard of progress for a birds eye view of your skill distribution. Are you more tech-skill focused, or well-balanced? Skill Seeker will identify your makeup, and chart a path toward whatever future you choose!

Steph Piper is a creative technologist and maker, and serves as the library makerspace manager at th University of Southern Queensland. She also runs Maker Queen AU, a small business creating beautiful soldering kits to inspire others to learn electronics skills, as well as the GlowStitch line of machine-sewable LEDs. Steph created the Party Button art installation, a cross walk interface designed to play party music that was featured at Curiocity Festival in Brisbane. She is based in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.

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Make: Skill Seeker Maker Edition (Print)

Make: Skill Seeker Maker Edition (PDF)

Join the Make: editorial staff & contributors as we dive deep to explore the coolest high-tech digital fabrication tools for your workshop!

In Make: Volume 92, we dive deep to explore the coolest high-tech digital fabrication tools for your workshop, from laser cutters to 3D printers to CNC machines! Plus, over 23 projects, including a DIY handheld CNC router that automatically helps you cut the right path! Register now for a chance to chat with our expert panel.

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Make: Volume 92 (PRINT)

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