(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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
In this week’s video, I’ll show you how to turn a 2D barcode into a knitted scarf! This is a fun way to get information from a garment into an electronic device, such as a cell phone equipped with a barcode-scanning camera. Anyone who takes a picture of my scarf can decode the message. I […]
Merit badges are a long-standing tradition, so I’m glad to see Adafruit Industries keeping up with the times: “Learning electronics” merit badges from Adafruit Industries – In a week or so we will be including “learning electronics” merit badges in some of our kits & tool packs at Adafruit Industries. The first one is “learning […]
Syuzi Pakhchyan, author of Fashioning Technology, has a conductive thread overview to help you decide which thread to use for your tech crafts. Syuzi writes: I get a lot of questions regarding which conductive thread I prefer or use. Unfortunately there is no ONE ideal thread — it really depends on what you are trying […]
Via BBG, these aren’t the first soft synthesizers we’ve seen, but they’re certainly some of the most attractive plush synths around. They’re by Pulsewidth, an artist out of Brisbane, Australia. They’re also for sale.
