From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I’ll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! You know you’ve got a geektastic event when even the fashion accessories start sporting LEDs. From Jared’s project page at Inventgeek: With the maker faire this […]
Instructables user Pulsea made a trackpad device out of resistive fabric, and describes how it works very nicely. Via the Instructables newsletter.
Begging for a remake, ThinkGeek sells this drum kit shirt with actuators for each of the different drum sounds and a speaker right on the shirt. Via Buzzfeed.
This “Electromagnetic Field Destector Bracelet” will alert you of the EMF affected areas that you inhabit daily. It reminds me of a project that I worked on in 2002, so it’s nice to see the evolution of the device is getting smaller and more integrated into everyday clothing and accessories. The next step with this […]
Today on Boing Boing TV, Xeni talks with Star Simpson, the former MIT student who ran afoul of Logan Airport security when she wore a breadboard on her sweatshirt to the airport and was mistaken for a suicide bomber. I hate when that happens! Star Simpson’s first interview on the Boston airport LED sweatshirt scare.
TMT, is the new SMT… Mikest writes- “Thread Mountable Technology” I made a bunch of LED beads today after work. I found that a novel way to solder a large number of beads together at once is to use sticky tape and needles to hold the crimps and LEDs in place. Soldering one side first, […]
NYC electronic artist Rucyl Mills hacked an M-Audio USB MIDI controller into the fashionably wearable Elektro-07 music controller – I built the elektro-07 so I could control the sonic and visual parameters of my live performances without having to look deep into the eye of my laptop, hunched over in computer music stance. I’m still […]
