How-To: EL Wire Fashion
Diana Eng made this awesome tutorial for Make: Online’s Geek Chic month in which she shows us how to work with EL wire to create light-up fashion.
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Upcycled jewelry from wire and cable
Courtney of St. Louis, Missouri’s Twisted Handmade takes “recycled/pre-loved/found” data wire and cable and artfully weaves and twists them into unique jewelry items. Twisted Sunshine Data Wire Bracelets Black and Green Hoop Earrings Cable Bracelets Weavy Data Wire Earrings Twisted Handmade is Courtney Chesley, aka Courtney Watson, who was born and raised in Bellevegas, IL, […]
Anti/Surveillance Fashion Show at Maker Faire
Submit your project! John Baichtal @ Make: Online alerts us to this cool Maker Faire opportunity: Noisebridge is proud to present Anti/Surveillance Fashion Show at the upcoming Maker Faire in San Mateo. Anti/Surveillance is a runway show exploring the uses of wearables for surveillance, and for hiding from surveillance. We are currently accepting submissions for […]
How-To: Fashioning Technology Space Invaders Tote
Our sister site MAKE has a Geek Chic theme in full swing this month. In the spirit of Geek Chic, we just had to offer an excerpt from our favorite book on smart crafting, Fashioning Technology by Syuzi Pakhchyan. This DIY Intro to Smart Crafting is precisely that: it offers everything you need to get […]
Knit Illuminated Hoodie
Syuzi @ Fashioning Technology writes: Skôn is a beautifully designed knit illuminated hoodie that changes the intensity of the light by tugging and stretching the hood itself. Designed by Paula Kassenaar in collaboration with Paula Segura Meccia at the Eindhoven University of Technology, the project was intended as a simple exploration into electronics and textiles. […]
Laser-Cut Hoop Skirt
This cotton skirt by Lauren Elise Albaugh was made on a laser cutter (and a big one, must have been!) and has a wire hoop and ribbon waistband. I love the patterning effect, and imagine it flows quite magically! Photo by Dominic Dagradi.
Email-Counting Shirt
Matt Mets @ Make: Online writes: Chris and Madeleine Ball wrote in to share their email-counting t-shirt. Using some parts that they got from the Sparkfun Free Day, they added an LED display to the front of the shirt, that displays a count of the user’s unread email. An Android phone continuously checks the user’s […]
