Month: May 2008

LED Cape

Andrew “Bruce” Lau made this amazing LED cape and wore it around Maker Faire all weekend. I caught up with him to chat about it, and he said that Leah Buechley’s LED tank top was a huge inspiration. He used her suggested technique of soldering metal beads to surface mount LEDs and stitching them in […]

Made in Japan – Volume 13

Made in Japan – Volume 13

This week: DIY Marble Mazes, The Uda Electronic Music Instrument, Maywa Denki’s “Sound is Fun,” The Swimming Robot, A Magnetic Actuator on an Ultralight Indoor Helicopter, Mr. Rolling, Made in Japan @ Maker Faire 2008, MechaRoboShop, the Xtel Ubiquitous Content Platform, and the Contraband Chumby. Marble Mazes by The Meiroya San Forget what you know […]

Selvedge Scarf

Jodie from RicRac has been collecting her selvedge scraps for a long time and the results are well worth it–she’s made a bag out of them in the past (which we featured here), and now she’s back with this beautiful scarf! I love the idea of not letting a single scrap of fabric go to […]