Via the CRAFT Flickr pool, Marisa Ranalli made this totally amazing handmade electronic and fiber dress powered by LilyPad Arduinos and included LEDs and nitinol wire (an alloy that changes shape when electricity is applied). It’s her final project in the Textiles program at Sheridan College in Toronto, and it’s totally rad! I’d love to […]
Gareth @ MAKE points out Jeri Ellsworth‘s amazing purse with a built-in classic Nintendo system, complete with Velcro-attached controllers. It’s also a Commodore 64. It would be perfect for impressing your date or even just on long car trips! Photo by Rose White.
Want to get your hands working with the LilyPad Arduino system? There’s a workshop being held in Berkeley this summer on the topic. It will be two full days of getting started with the LilyPad and conductive materials for use in your own projects, taught by Adrian Freed. Via Fashioning Technology. By cutting, sewing, sticking, […]
Instructables user kanjun writes: This tutorial will show you how to create a garment that changes its behavior depending on how conductive you are. It detects conductivity through iron-on conductive fabric that we will use, and it will light up and sing different notes depending on how you touch the conductive fabric. We’ll be using […]
(Photos by: Doug Eng and Shane O’Neill) On March 19th, I had my book release party for Fashion Geek: Clothes, Accessories, Tech at Pop Lounge. It included a fashion presentation of all of the DIY electronic fashions in the book. Here’s a look behinds the scenes of making the DIY projects into a fashion presentation. […]
(Photo by: Doug Eng) Hi Everyone! The Fashion Geek fashion presentation happenned last night. I was very pleased with how it all turned out. I’ll have the full scoop with lots of photos and details to follow on Monday. Have a great weekend!
Only one more day until the big electronic fashion show for the release of my book Fashion Geek: Clothes, Accessories, Tech on March 19th. There are so many things that need to get done to make a fashion show happen. Since CRAFT is all about DIY, here are all the steps you need to follow […]
