Leah Buechley will be a part of a Wearables Master Class by Mediamatic teaching a workshop on her LilyPad Arduino in Amsterdam April 15-18. During the workshop, you’ll learn how to make soft, playful, and wearable computers by using the LilyPad Arduino. Other instructors are Maurin Donneaud & Vincent Roudaut of XYinteraction (textile & electronics). […]
RFID tags are those tiny identifiers in your keyfobs, pets, and quickpay systems. I use them in various art projects and games where the idenfication of specific people is important, but often they come in ugly packages that are cumbersome to use. I started using these flat disc tags recently, and in order to incorporate […]
Collin @ MAKE writes: This chic pet-substitute responds to touch with pulsing blue LED ‘eyes’ and a purring effect courtesy of Lilypad vibrating motor boards. The Cat Bag / Cuddle Bag was created as part of the ‘Designing Hybrid wearables’ workshop at Mediamatic Amsterdam. This bag would be good when traveling without a beloved pet, […]
Leah Buechley, a PhD student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is well known for her electronic clothing–just take a look at the LED shirt project she did for CRAFT:01. Her signal jacket (above) for cyclists seems like such a fantastic invention that should be made by all you bikers out there and adopted […]
This awesome winter coat is printed with images of a wiring closet. I know some sysadmins who would disappear if they wore this at work! – [via] Link.
Jennie writes, I’ve recently become obsessed with the latest installment in Keita Takahashi’s brilliant Katamari Damacy series, Beautiful Katamari. I created my own real-fake Katamari from an assortment of dollhouse furnishings, hobby shop accoutrements, and toy stores oddities. Additionally, I hand made Pocky and Milky packages using inkjet prints on tiny boxes. The entire replica […]
Here’s a cool exhibition for those in and around Adams, Massachusetts, all about LEDs: In this interactive exhibit we explore the simple and ubiquitous Light Emitting Diode’s capacity as an expressive object. Artists use the LED to generate light, display images and patterns, respond to our actions, and reflect on our environment. The result is […]
