Laser-cut Fruit Bowl
Instuctables user rsablosky made this fruit bowl from pieces of laser-cut bamboo, using the laser mail order service Ponoko and some copper wire.
Technology
Knitted Plastic Tubing makes Fluid Sculpture
Wow, this “fluid sculpture” by Casual Profanity is really mesmirizing. It uses a nifty knitter to knit up a section of surgical tubing, through which colored liquid is pumped, creating really interesting patterns. I can’t stop watching! Via Pixelsumo. More: Blood scarf by Laura Splan
CRAFT Video: LilyPad Arduino 101
Get started with the LilyPad Arduino! It’s a sewable microcontroller that lets you embed lights, sounds, sensors, and much more into your wearables, perfect for clothing and accessories. In this video I’ll show you how to attach the LilyPad and power supply to each other, and upload a basic program that blinks an LED. You […]
Digital Soaps
Etsy seller Digitalsoaps makes realistic replicas of game controllers in soap. I wonder if this will encourage epic gamers to bathe more often. Available in Xbox, Playstation, NES, and more. Via Geekologie.
Behind the Scenes of Fashion Geek: The Fashion Show Night
(Photos by: Doug Eng and Shane O’Neill) On March 19th, I had my book release party for Fashion Geek: Clothes, Accessories, Tech at Pop Lounge. It included a fashion presentation of all of the DIY electronic fashions in the book. Here’s a look behinds the scenes of making the DIY projects into a fashion presentation. […]
Cereal Box Lights
I am totally enchanted by these pin-pricked cereal box lights from designer Anke Weiss. I’m not always a fan of projects that use repurposed materials so prominently (at least from an aesthetic sense; of course it makes sense for the planet!), but these are so beautiful and so magical and so funny I’d be thrilled […]
Behind the Scenes of Fashion Geek: Designing Fashion with Electronics
My new book Fashion Geek: Clothes, Accessories, Tech is out in bookstores now. It teaches how to make 13 DIY electronic fashion projects using things like LEDs, hacked pedometers, and conductive thread. I had a lot of fun making this book, and the best part was designing fashions for other people to make. Fashion Geek […]
