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 […]
If I were a teacher grading papers, “A” would stand for “All Your Base Are Belong To Us,” now available in stamp form. Via BoingBoing.
Ginger Anyhow explores the world of digital love with her series of embroidered text messages documenting her previous (?) romance sparked and extinquished. Thanks Forrest O!
A TV-B-Gone is a small device that turns off most televisions. It’s handy for dining out, except everyone gives you funny looks while you use it, so I decided to embed it in a hooded sweatshirt. I made a switch by using the metal zipper pull. When it bridges the space between the two pads […]
Fourteen year-old CRAFT reader Marielle Riley of Naperville, Illnois says her favorite operating system is Linux. She decided to create her own LED Penguin Softie based off one of her own drawings (pictured left). She hand-sewed the softie and added a string of battery powered LEDs to light up the body gem.
