Mitchell Whitelaw over at The Teeming Void has a great post about his 3D-printed weather data bracelet. The bracelet is beautiful (if a little prickly), but it gets its meaning from the data embedded in it. The peaks are the temperature highs and the troughs are the lows from a year’s worth of data in […]
What a lovely video about animating textiles with SMA (shape memory alloys aka “muscle wire”), which expants and contracts when varying currents are passed through it. These are studies in the field by Lynda Fletcher, a student at Central Saint Martins. [via Fashioning Technology]
Have your open source cake and eat it too with this Arduino cake, made by Massimo Banzi’s students at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. [via adafruit] More: CRAFT Video: LilyPad Arduino 101
If you’d like to add a little tech to your tree this year, check out this illuminated snowflake ornament tutorial from Syuzi Pakhchyan.
Use a small amount of conductive thread sewn onto your glove’s fingertip to use your touch screen phone! Touch screens work by measuring the way your skin conducts electricity, so the thread connects the screen and your finger through the insulating barrier of your gloves. [via craftycrafty]
I recently set up my Brother KH-930E knitting machine with its ribbing attachment, and here it is spitting out a long scarf, followed by a picture of another scarf I made today. We’ve had some tricky times together, but I’m finally wielding this 20 year-old machine with fury. Rawr! With the ribber, I can knit […]
Swedish designer Hedvig af Ekenstam makes soft decorative radiators from heating cables; I love the patterns, and her name! [via Fashioning Technology]
