By Leah Buechley I built this shirt to experiment with wearable computing and electronic textile technology and realized along the way that the basic materials were actually quite easy to work with and there was lots of room for creativity and innovation at all levels, so I was inspired to write up this do-it-yourself guide. […]
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
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 […]
(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 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 […]
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 ]
