Angela Sheehan runs a site of crafty creations called Soft Circuit Saturdays. She demonstrates lots of neat ways that you can combine circuits with fabrics to entertain all your senses and even protect your tongue. She will be showing her work at this Saturday’s Cambridge Mini Maker Faire from noon to 4pm just outside the Cambridge Public Library.
Natalie @ CRAFT writes: The Soft Circuit Workshop taught by NYU ITP alum Grace Kim has 2 classes coming up this month at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco. The workshop will cover basics of wearable technology. Workshop participants will be given a historical overview of wearables in the context of fashion, […]
With our Geek Chic theme in full swing this month, we just had to offer an excerpt from our favorite book on smart crafting, Fashioning Technology by Syuzi Pakhchyan. This DIY Intro to Smart Crafting is precisely that: it offers everything you need to get started blending “traditional and unorthodox crafting techniques with new, intelligent […]
In celebration of Geek Chic month here at Make: Online, three lucky readers will win a copy of Diana Eng’s book, Fashion Geek! You’ve seen it on the runway and the red carpet — clothing and accessories that combine the world of fashion with the modern sleekness of tech. And now, the know-how to to […]
Elbow injuries suffered by pitchers in Major League Baseball occur frequently and result in tens of millions of dollars in losses each season, representing the money that must be paid in salaries to pitchers who cannot perform due to injury.
“No single device for measuring the quality of pitching mechanics currently exists, so we have proposed a shirt that is lightweight and can be worn during bullpen sessions or exhibition games,” said Moche. “The shirt can be used to show when a player becomes fatigued and his mechanics worsen, through a display of real-time information on a monitor in the dugout.”
Spinner is a rather theoretical project by MIT grad student Mathew Laibowitz that gathers together data from a variety of wearable and environmental sensors “order to develop a parametric model of effective narratives that can be mapped onto sensor-detectable elements of human behavior.” Spinner is a novel sensor network system designed to detect and capture […]
If you’re in NYC this weekend, check out Raphael Abrams’ soft circuit class at NYC Resistor. There are a few spots left! Learn to make soft, flexible and washable electronic circuits embedded right into common textiles! We’ll cover conductive thread, waterproof circuitry, embedded sensors and tactile feedback. Everyone leaves with enough basic knowlege to level-up […]
