Matt Mets @ MAKE writes: Here’s an older project by Micah Dowty, that I just found out about: a homebrew soft circuit RFID tag. Not content to just make a homebrew RFID reader using a Propeller microcontroller, he proceeded to design an RFID tag using only an ATtiny85 microcontroller and an inductor, and built an […]
New Zealand’s Victoria University recent graduate Emma Whiteside made this incredible 18th century-style gown from discarded automotive radiator copper for the 2009 World of WearableArt show. The dress weighs 22 pounds and took 200 hours to sew. Check out this closeup:
> If you ever need to remotely control your iPod while out at a fancy event, Aniomagic and Lynne Bruning show us how to sew a iPod remote into an evening dress.
Ricardo Nascimento and Jader Scalzaretto developed this pair of performative interactive capes that control sounds based on the embedded sensors. [via Fashioning Technology]
> The final installment of Diana Eng’s Fairytale Fasion series is about incorporating a mobius strip into a purse strap. One savvy reader suggested that a mobius strip collar might also be interesting! Check out the video to see how it works. More: Fairytale Fashion: Deployable Structures Fairytale Fashion – Conductive Materials: Playing with Drawdio […]
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. I had […]
Today I’m at the MIT Media Lab meeting with some of the most awesome folks in wearable technology, including Hannah Perner-Wilson, a grad student in the High Low Tech research group. She made the above stretch-sensitive bracelet, which uses conductive thread and resistive yarn to make an LED light up when the bracelet is stretched.
