North-Finding LED Skirt – CRAFT Video
Meredith Scheff shows off her LED compass skirt at Maker Faire Bay Area 2010.
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/05/north-finding_led_skirt.html
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Young Maker Voice: Lucy Leith on Maker Faire
Here’s one of my favorite notes ever. It’s from a Lucy Leith, about her experience at Maker Faire, which she attended last year with her dad, Andy. My name is Lucy Leith, and I am a 13-year-old maker. I heard about Maker Faire through MAKE magazine, and thought that it would be a cool thing […]
Lighted Wedding Dress
(Photography by: Carlos Linares III) Alison of Switch made this beautiful lighted wedding dress for her friend Julia’s beachy wedding in Hawaii. Alison writes: The final dress has a soft glowing under skirt with a splash of light on the bodice and finishes at the shoulders with feather-like tendrils. It runs on 4 AAA batteries, […]
Captain Electric and Battery Boy
Captain Electric and Battery Boy is a heady fashion project with electronic elements in the clothing that respond to the actions of the wearer. The three dresses in the collection, Itchy, Sticky, and Stiff, each create a different thought provoking paradox. Stiff translates pressure into soothing music, Sticky harnesses the power of the wearers struggle […]
Conductive Knit Mittens
For those of you looking for more ways of taking the leap using conductive threads, check out Fionnuala Murphy’s conductive mittens prototype where she knit conductive thread patches and attached them to her mittens. [ via Fashioning Technology ]
