At Maker Faire this past weekend, these two cuties came to show me their LilyPad Arduino projects they made (and soldered themselves) using the CRAFT videos to help out, thanks for coming by! Your blinky wearables are super impressive! Photo is by their dad, leave us a comment so we can find you online! More: […]
By Becky Stern I love any activity that promotes creativity and discovery. To me, tinkering with electronics is the same as stitching a picture, and combined they can tell a story that crafters and gearheads both want to hear. This picture of a frog catching fireflies is embellished with lights that bring the bugs to […]
Author of Fashioning Technology Syuzi Pakhchyan scoured the World Maker Faire NY schedule and posted a great roundup of the wearable tech projects to be on display, like Vital Threads Biofeedback Apparel (above left), the Life Dress (above right), and of course Diana Eng‘s Maker Faire Fashion Show (on Saturday at 2 p.m. in the […]
By Brookelynn Morris LED hula hoops are so beautiful to watch, and creating a custom hoop is a satisfying challenge. Twenty-one LEDs are used in this hoop; 6 are flashing LEDs that cycle through the colors of the rainbow. Each light is combined with a resistor and then wired together in a classic and simple […]
Part of the “Reaction” series by Nervous System, this CNC routed shelf gives the illusion that the dishes have disturbed a smooth liquid surface.
A couple of weeks ago, Ann Martin of All Things Paper tweeted that she was thinking of making a quilled version of the Twitter Fail Whale. I’ve been following her closely ever since to make sure I didn’t miss the resulting project, and her work does not disappoint. She nailed the colors, and those waves […]
Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo. It’s hard to imagine that a mere nine months ago the world had not yet been introduced to the iPad. To point, I recently saw a young girl in a stroller playing some kind of interactive teaching game on, yes, an iPad. My first […]
