Syuzi Pakhchyan, author of Fashioning Technology, will be teaching an e-textile and soft sensor workshop this Sunday, June 27th from 12pm -3pm at CrashSpace in Los Angeles. Syuzi writes: This course will introduce you to an exciting new palate of conductive threads and fabrics — some of which aren’t commercially available. Unique properties and qualities […]
Meredith Scheff’s StarBoard intro kits are now in Makers Market! StarBoards are an easier way to make soft circuit projects. Totally flexible, StarBoards are iron-on PCB (printed circuit boards) that you can sew through with a sewing machine and conductive thread. They can also be soldered on directly with regular wire or hand stitched. Because […]
If you’re in the midwest and create fashion-electric wearables, sign up to show in the eTextile Fashion Show at Maker Faire Detroit! Lynne Bruning writes: As technology becomes ever more interwoven with our daily lives, innovative means of interface blur the lines between computers, textiles and fashion. Maker Faire and Lynne Bruning come together to […]
Kate Hartman and Hazel Meyer (both at OCAD) have developed a project called Nudgeables, where the wearers of a garter/brooch pair can communicate with each other over a short distance, “nudging” each other with small vibrating motors. The garter switch is activated by crossing one’s legs, and the brooch has a clever soft “pinch” switch. […]
Meredith Scheff shows off her LED compass skirt at Maker Faire Bay Area 2010 in this week’s CRAFT Video. Meredith sells a solderless “Star Board” soft circuit kit based on her sew-through circuits technique, which includes everything you need to get started on a project like this. Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, watch […]
Meredith Scheff came up with this ingenious sew-though soft circuit technique using flexible copper clad laminate, which she etched and then ran through the sewing machine. Keep an eye out here on CRAFT later today for a video interview with Meredith at Maker Faire where she shows off a very cool application of this technique! […]
Alicia Gibb (NYCResistor and Bug Labs) is doing research on the use of the LilyPad Arduino in response to this call for Feminism in HCI (human-computer interaction) out out by Shaowen Bardzell (Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing) and Elizabeth F. Churchill (Yahoo! Research), which will culminate in a special issue of Interacting with […]
