Got an iPod or laptop that needs a portable sound system to go with it? One of CRAFT Volume 07‘s awesome offerings is Syuzi Pakhchyan’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Speakers project. Using this clearly photographed and laid out step-by-step, you can make your own pair of low-fi travel speakers. Here’s an image of what you’ll need: […]
After I wrote the Electronic Embroidery article for CRAFT, Vol. 9, I had readers emailing me asking where they could get their hands on small quantities of the supplies needed to embellish their wearables and wall hangings with light. The Sparkfun E-sewing kit is great if you want a whole spool of conductive thread, but […]
Wow! Hannah Perner-Wilson made this really avant-garde neck-stroking wearable electronic feather device, and made a how-to on Instructables.
I just revisited an old friend: CRAFT Volume 01! I had almost forgotten what tasty morsels of crafting our premiere issue offered back in October of 2006. I’ve always loved cutting-edge crafter Leah Buechley‘s “Electric Tank Top” project. As Leah had written in the intro, “Although challenging, everyone should play with this stuff! It’s great […]
Georgia Tech grad student Matt Gilbert has been making some awesome crochet from a pattern generator he made, finding inspiration in acoustics. He and I share a strong opinion that computing and iterative crafting (crochet, knitting, weaving, etc.) have much in common. He writes: While the Jacquard Loom allowed for the beautiful and elaborate patterns […]
Leah Buechley is one of my favorite tech/craft innovators. Check out this video of her talk at the Design Futures lecture series: People knit scarves, build furniture, sew clothing, and solder radios together in their homes and garages. Diverse groups of people–girls and boys, grandparents and college students–lovingly engage in these hands-on low-tech hobbies. In […]
Artist Rachelle Beaudoin created this art performance chastity belt that shocks people when they touch it (but doesn’t shock her while wearing it). She used an off-the-shelf “shock your friends” gag toy circuits and extended the pertinent electrical leads using embroidered conductive thread on a vintage girdle. It was inspired by the film “That Obscure […]
