I don’t know much about dresses…or pen nibs, but apparently together they create an impressive visual effect, as this Pen Nib Dress by John Nussey and Steven Tai illustrates. 795 pen nibs, mounted on tiny motors, are sewn into the dress. These rows of pen nibs are animated to created a hypnotic shimmer of movement […]
In this week’s CRAFT Video, come with me to the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There I met with e-textiles pioneer Leah Buechley and students from her research group called “High-Low Tech,” which Leah describes as “blends” of technology with traditional crafts to make new toolkits for creativity and learning. http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/01/craft_meets_tech_at_mit.html
Sew up this little colorful brooch using a LilyPad tri-color LED and three small potentiometers for a customizable color wardrobe embellishment. Comments are disabled; check out the project on the Craftzine blog:
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/05/craft_video_color_changing_led.html
FashionWare SXSW from Syuzi Pakhchyan on Vimeo. Syuzi of Fashioning Tech and author of Fashioning Technology will be at SXSW in Austin March 18 and 19th for the FashionWare exhibition. Syuzi writes: FashionWare SXSW is an exhibition of visionary work by cutting-edge fashion designers who today are shaping the future of fashion. From “smart” fabrics […]
Get started with the LilyPad Arduino! It’s a sewable microcontroller that lets you embed lights, sounds, sensors, and much more into your wearables, perfect for clothing and accessories. In this video I’ll show you how to attach the LilyPad and power supply to each other, and upload a basic program that blinks an LED. Next time I’ll show some more advanced topics including hooking up a sensor and using it to change the circuit’s behavior.
In this intermediate soft circuit tutorial, I show you how to make a light-up patch (mine is from http://fffff.at) that can be used on your backpack for fun and bike safety. Get the code and details at http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/04/craft_video_lilypad_arduino_bi.html
Photograph by See-ming Lee One of the events we are looking forward to at World Maker Faire NY this weekend is Diana Eng’s Technology Fashion Show, scheduled for 2 p.m. in the Great Hall. Naturally, Diana is incredibly busy getting ready to dazzle us, but she took a few minutes to share some insight with […]
