Hannah Perner-Wilson writes about her embroidered potentiometers: Made using the zig-zag stitch on the sewing machine to sew/embroider a conductive and a resistive trace side by side. Then any conductive object can be used to bridge the contact between the traces and measure the position/distance from measuring point through the change in resistance. In the […]
This video from youtube user pixelcutter is rad. It is beautiful to see what a pair of human hands can create with straight-up tangled trash.
Alicia Gibb has curated a show of Arduino-based artwork, based on the work of her master’s thesis, and it’ll be this Saturday in NYC! I’ll have an interactive embroidery piece in the show, and head over to the NYC Resistor site for a sneak peek at the work. Art, Design, and the Arduino: a lineage […]
How cool would it be if every time you tippety tapped on your keyboard, the font that resulted was your very own unique handwriting? Pretty cool, if you ask me. If you haven’t heard of Fonifier yet, read on to see how you can create your own handwriting font for under $10. This week’s Flashback […]
If this test pattern sweater is displaying correctly, you know your computer screen is adjusted properly. Creator specialsally’s is responsible for this clever vest. [Thanks, Nathan!]
For those of you who have beat your head repeatedly against the archaic wall of finite system-only web fonts, relief is here. Tired of Arial? Bored with Times New Roman? Fatigued by Verdana? Insulted by Comic Sans? Me too. Typekit to the rescue! Typekit is a San Francisco web app company produced by Small Batch […]
62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer by Randy Sarafan Book site: deadcomputerbook.com Buy on Amazon We all have old, broken, or otherwise junk electronics stashed away in our closets. Randy Sarafan’s 62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer is just what it sounds like and much more, inspiring makers to repurpose mice, […]
