Amy Khoshbin made this really funny wearable tech project, the Butt-crack detector: using a Lilypad Arduino, vibrating motor, and a photoresistor (measures the amount of light in your coin slot), you will make a wearable apparatus. when the photoresistor/your coin slot is covered, the hip-pack is at rest, when it/your coin slot is exposed, this […]
WhipUp points us to this great online quilt pattern generator, which will randomly produce up to roughly a zillion different quilt block patterns for you. Too cool!
This weekend Syuzi Pakhchyan and I had the opportunity to show off Sparkfun’s new E-sewing kit and LilyPad Pro kit at Maker Faire Austin. Syuzi writes: The Lilypad E-sewing Kit is a great starters kit for individuals tackling their first wearable LED project. The components in this kit can be used for either the Rockstar […]
All weekend at Maker Faire Austin I was chatting up a storm about the uses of conductive thread. We carried the E-sewing kit and the LilyPad Arduino kit in the Maker Shed, and I gave an embroidery demo on adding LEDs to your projects. I made this angler fish picture with the help of CRAFT […]
PT @ MAKE points us to Jean Shin’s TEXTile: In this interactive sculpture, thousands of recycled keyboard keys are embedded into a continuous textile. The keys spell out a line-by-line transcript of the email correspondence between the artist and fabricators regarding the creation of the artwork. As a result, the sculpture documents its own making. […]
I’m running a demo at Maker Faire on integrating electronics components onto fabric using conductive thread. No sewing, embroidery, or circuitry experience required, and it’ll be once each day of the Faire. Hope you can join me for some soft blinky fun!
This Forbes.com article, A Blinking Fashion Statement, gives some nice publicity to the smart crafting movement and DIY wearable electronics: For all their talk of breaking glass ceilings, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have nothing on Leah Buechley. In the several years since she first sewed a circuit board to a T-shirt, the 31-year-old University […]
