If you use conductive thread in your projects, then you might want to check out this tutorial for making a seam ripper that also tests the electrical path of conductive thread by instructables member Plusea. This seam-ripper has a continuity meter built in. An LED lights up to indicate when an unwanted electrical connection is […]
Instructables user, Plusea, shares this cool tutorial for making a functioning breadboard pincushion. This pincushion design has strips of conductive fabric adhered to its surface, so that metal pins or component contacts that protrude through the same piece of conductive fabric are electrically connected. This cushion can be used for prototyping electrical circuits as well […]
This brilliant bag from Kalani Craig for Knitty kind of blows my mind. It’s bag that uses LEDs and a Lilypad Arduino to display stitches of a knitting pattern. The video above explains it well, and shows how the different blinking LEDs stand for different types of stitches. Yep, this bag knows everything. It knows […]
Bolide is an amazingly intricate and stunningly beautiful motorcycle, from Kraus Motor Co, in Cazadero. You may recall seeing Satya Kraus working on the bike in the premire edition of our video series, Meet the Makers. Bolide just took 3rd place in the 2011 World Championship of Custom Bike Building. Every part of this bike […]
This Portal 2 Wheatley puppet from Furin Cosplay is nothing short of phenomenal. Check out the extensive in-progress documentation on her blog to get an even deeper appreciation for the amount of work that went in to making it. [via @thinkgeek]
I sometimes wish there was a category on this blog called “You Learn Something New Everyday” because that’s where I would put Stitching Concrete. I had never heard of Concrete Canvas, or Concrete Cloth, for that matter. Luckily, contemporist posted these whip stitched stools from Florian Schmid.
Syuzi of Fashioning Technology points us to this amazing quilt developed by Alberto Elizondo, Roberto Picerno, Francesca Pizzutilo. Lullaby is an illuminated quilt that bridges the distance between a parent and a child geographically apart through interactive play. Touching a quadrant on one quilt, simultaneously illuminates the same pattern on a second quilt. The interaction […]
