More wearables goodness from Becky over at Adafruit. Folks have been crowing about the advent of wearable electronics for a long time, of course, and while it’s easy for prognosticators and futurists to predict these things in theory, it takes folks like Becky, down in the trenches, to actually make it happen.
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Aaaaaaaaand we have a serious new contender for the title of Best Who’s-in-the-Box Ever. Adafruit senior designer Phillip Burgess was inspired by customers’ observations that their new-ish 10 cm “Massive Red Arcade Button” looks a lot like the iconic eye of Clarke and Kubrick’s famously malevolent mainframe. For sheer comedic value, I think…
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Becky’s latest wearables project, over at adafruit, combines three components from their FLORA sewable electronics ecosystem—the microcontroller, the accelerometer/compass module, and the RGB LED “pixels”—to create a no-solder sewable circuit that sparkles when you sashay!
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Love this! Adafruit has a kids’ video series talking about electronics. Episode one explains how amps got their name and what the units actually measure. And dude — I had no idea André-Marie Ampere was a spitting image of our friend Collin Cunningham! They’ve already produced a coloring book based on the same idea.
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Check out Becky’s latest wearables project over at adafruit. With special guest appearance by Collin Cunningham.
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Check out what MAKE alum Becky Stern has been up to over at adafruit, lately.
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Are you a hardcore iPhone modder? That is, are you willing to disassemble your treasured device, put it under a microscope, and attack its tiny circuit board traces with a soldering iron? If so, then this new video from MAKE alum Becky Stern, over at adafruit, is for you.
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