Technology

Vintage Resistor Earrings

David Petrides writes in about Charlotte of “Earrings 101” and her vintage resistor earrings, made into the stamen of flowers, terminated with Swarovski crystals. More subtle than the resistor earrings I’ve seen before, these would make a great addition to any classy electronics lady’s collection. – Link.

RFID and unique physical form

RFID tags contain a unique electronic signature. Artist and grad student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Lisa Smith has designed these forms that have a unique form to match that signature. She calls her process the “cuteness generator.” Lisa writes: The forms are generated with a small piece of front end […]

Plush Squid as Wireless Controller

A colleague and I’ve recently been polishing up a project for our research group in Arts, Media and Engineering at ASU: It’s a large plush squid with circuitry inside to interface with a computer program. I designed the pattern loosely based on the giant plush squids by Cassandra Nguyen, and I sewed sensors into each […]

Lisa Black’s Steampunk Taxidermy

Lisa Black’s Steampunk Taxidermy

Phil @ MAKE writes: Lisa Black’s steampunk taxidermy manages to meld two memes I didn’t expect to intersect until at least next Thursday, oh – *warning* if taxerdermified deers and ducks with gears on them offends please don’t proceed with the clickity click coming… I love this fawn with a sewing machine bobbin mechanism for […]

Knitted Electromagnetic Shields

From the technophobic department, Zoe Papadopoulou at the Royal Academy of Art is making these shields for anything electric, knitting a copper filament in her cozies and electrically grounding it. This provides some shielding from the electromagnetic fields these devices emit. Truth is, however, that the waves running through the air (cell phone frequencies, mainly) […]