Winter Is Coming: Make a Heated Beanie Using Carbon Fiber
Learn how to harness the conductive capabilities of carbon fiber with this beanie — it’s like an electronic blanket for your noggin.
Wearables
Watch These Electronic Badges Evolve
Designed for Burning Man and powered by Orchard, these badges mimic genetics. When two badges come into contact, their light pattern changes.
Coin Cell Sized MetaWearC Packs Power to Target Wearables Market
Size, battery life, and communications are starting to converge towards the stage where the wearables objects are not just possible, but usable. The new MetaWearC board isn’t just riding that trend, it’s leading it.
Hands on with the RePhone, the Modular Wearable Cell Phone
On Tuesday Seeed Studio kicked off a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for their newest and hottest product, the RePhone, a modular open source cell phone. Today we got to go hands on with the hardware.
Hacking on the Pebble Smartstrap
The smart watch market is heating up. However perhaps the most intriguing thing about Pebble’s new hardware platforms is the smart accessory port, which will let you build a smartstrap for your smart watch.
5 More Maker Projects That Freaked People Out
Ahmed Mohamed isn’t the first kid who built something other people didn’t understand. Check out five more Makers who built something “scary.”
Fun Fiber Optic Formalwear Illuminates the Dance Floor
If you’d like to make a fashion statement that’s out of this world, then you’d better keep your eye out for the fiber optic formal wear that will be on display at Maker Faire Bay Area this year. Jenn Mann did a fabulous job following Instructables user Natalina’s Fiber Optic Dress project, but created her […]
