How-To: Tie-Dyed Canvas Shoes
Give plain canvas shoes a colorful summertime makeover with this fun tutorial for making tie-dyed TOMS!
Month: July 2014
A Working OLED Watch Built from Scratch
What do you do when you have a small spare organic LED display? If you’re computer engineering student Jared Sanson, you make a watch out of it, designing nearly every aspect of it from scratch. This design was started at the circuit level, and after that, a PCB was laid out in Altium, which Jared […]
A Toolkit for Learning About Biomimicry
Explore the lectures, videos, exercises, case studies, and other resources included in the toolkit.
Flashback: Vertical Tape Shoelaces
Are your sneakers in need of some much-needed love? You can make your own shoelaces based on favorite colors, patterns, and even fabrics thanks to one sewing staple – a bias tape maker.
Step Out in Shiny Shoes for Art & Design Week
This week on Maker Camp, we put our best foot forward with five great days of projects and programming, starting with today’s session. Tune in today at 11am Pacific time for an hour of hacked fashion, especially some shiny shoes that glow with LEDs or sparkle with bling. We’ll meet two makers who do it themselves in […]
Quilting Skills: Practically Perfect Points in Quilt Blocks
Ready to up your quilting game? Check out these fantastic, practical tips for sewing beautifully matched seams and points in quilt blocks!
An Interview With Becky Stern About Wearable Electronics
The illustrious Becky Stern has joined us for an interview about wearable electronics. As you know, Becky lives and breathes wearables so she has some incredible insight. If you’d like to find more of Becky, you should probably tune into her weekly show about wearable electronics! If you don’t want to, or can’t open a […]