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How-To: Light-Up Chameleon Scarf That Matches Any Outfit

How-To: Light-Up Chameleon Scarf That Matches Any Outfit

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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Wouldn’t it be cool if your accessories could automatically change color to match your outfit? Turns out, with this new chameleon scarf project from Adafruit, they can!

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How-To: Light Up Sparkle Skirt

How-To: Light Up Sparkle Skirt

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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Light up a room just by walking in—and I mean literally—with this light up sparkle skirt tutorial from Becky Stern!

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Plush Game Controller Looks Great on the Couch

Plush Game Controller Looks Great on the Couch

By Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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Becky over at Adafruit is taking the wraps off an all new project, a capacitive touch sensitive plush USB game controller. At the core of the project is the Adafruit Flora, which is connected to eight pads of conductive fabric. The Flora uses Modern Device’s Capacitive Sensing library to read whether or not you’re touching […]

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How-To: LED VU-Meter Necktie

How-To: LED VU-Meter Necktie

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Check out Becky’s latest wearables project over at adafruit. With special guest appearance by Collin Cunningham.

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How-To: Brake Light Backpack for Cyclists

How-To: Brake Light Backpack for Cyclists

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Check out what MAKE alum Becky Stern has been up to over at adafruit, lately.

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Flora has Arrived in the Maker Shed!

Flora has Arrived in the Maker Shed!

By Michael Castor

Michael Castor

I am the Evangelist for the Maker Shed. It seems that there is no limit to my making interests. I'm a tinkerer at heart and have a passion for solving problems and figuring out how things work. When not working for Make I can be found falling off my unicycle, running in adverse weather conditions, skiing down the nearest hill, restoring vintage motorcycles, or working on my car.

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The long awaited Adafruit Flora has arrived in the Maker Shed! This versatile e-textiles platforms make “smart” clothing other stitch-able projects that can interact with their environment.

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Wearable Electronics in The New York Times

Wearable Electronics in The New York Times

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Some nice weekend coverage for our kissing cousins over at Adafruit, who are banking hard on the future of DIY wearable electronics with their new FLORA wearable Arduino-compatible microcontroller.

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