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January 15, 2010
How-To: Light-up costume
Sarah James at Instructables has made this awesome light-up EL wire costume, and shares the process with us in her excellent tutorial.
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Jan 15, 2010 11:16 AM
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January 13, 2010
How-To: Make a "stroke sensor"
Instructables user Plusea brings us this cool tutorial on how to make a soft sensor that closes a circuit when it is petted or stroked.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Jan 13, 2010 09:00 AM
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January 8, 2010
Craft meets tech at MIT
In this week's CRAFT Video, come with me to the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There I met with e-textiles pioneer Leah Buechley and students from her research group called "High-Low Tech," which Leah describes as "blends" of technology with traditional crafts to make new toolkits for creativity and learning. I had so much fun checking out the amazingly brilliant and fun projects by Hannah Perner-Wilson, Emily Lovell, David Mellis, and Bonifaz Kaufmann, I had a hard time leaving!
Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, watch it on YouTube, Vimeo, Blip, or download the m4v video.
More:
- CRAFT Video: LilyPad Arduino 101
- CRAFT Video: LilyPad Arduino Bike Patch
- Touch Sensitive LilyPad Arduino Hoodie
- Fab radio looks fabulous
- Interview with soft circuit maven Hannah Perner-Wilson
Posted by Becky Stern |
Jan 8, 2010 12:11 PM
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January 7, 2010
Secret handshake of the future
While at the MIT Media Lab earlier this week, I met David Cranor, a student in the Object-Based Media group, who showed me his LilyPad Arduino secret handshake project he made with Amanda Peyton, Arlene Persaud, Rajiv Bhatia, and Sinbae Kim for their Tangible Interfaces class last semester. He writes:
We ironed on conductive fabric pads on different parts of the gloves, and read them off like a multiplexed keypad. The pads on one glove are the rows and the pads on the other glove are the columns, and strobing rows and columns sees what combination of pads were connected to each other). The LilyPad then figures out what gesture is being made and transmits a number through serial to a Processing program which displays the gesture on the screen and checks for the correct pattern.
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Jan 7, 2010 08:00 AM
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January 5, 2010
Visiting the MIT High-Low Tech group today
Today I'm at MIT visiting the Media Lab's High-Low Tech (HLT) group, headed up by Leah Buechley. I'm hanging out with her and her grad students Hannah Perner-Wilson, David Mellis, and Emily Lovell, as well as e-textile education maven Kate Hartman. More later this week including video, but for now check out mine and Kate's photos! Yesterday we met with all sorts of education and e-textile superstars and had a knitted sensor workshop. Pictured above is Hannah showing Kate how to finish her machine-knitted conductive yarn stretch sensor.
Posted by Becky Stern |
Jan 5, 2010 08:00 AM
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Desaturated Santa costume
No, they haven't been photoshopped. Brody S. made this awesome black-and-white Santa suit for San Francisco Santa Con 2009. [via Dude Craft]
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Jan 5, 2010 05:57 AM
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December 30, 2009
How-To: Build a vintage diving helmet prop
Interesting tutorial over on Propnomicon, by Richard Bird, who built this vintage diving helmet replica prop for a recent LARP adventure for London's The Dark Door group.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Dec 30, 2009 09:05 AM
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December 28, 2009
Stretch sensitive bracelet
Hannah Perner-Wilson made this stretch sensitive bracelet that doesn't light up until you wear it. It's knit from resistive and traditional yarn, and also uses conductive thread.
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Dec 28, 2009 08:00 AM
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Ring Oscillator Pendant
When you connect an odd number of digital logic inverters in a ring, you'll get a Ring Oscillator - one of the simplest types. This configuration has no stable state, so the 1s and 0s chase each other around the ring, creating oscillations. Normally this isn't easy to visualize, but Make Flickr Pool contributor ellindsey000 made a pendant that illustrates the principle beautifully:
This actually looks much better in person -- I'm at the 26C3 conference, where someone (sorry, I'll try to get your name!) built a replica based on ellindsey000's photos. The LEDs are ultraviolet, causing different spots in the center marble (which contains uranium) to glow. What the video above doesn't show is that the UV LEDs are barely visible and the glow inside the marble seems to move almost as if it was a liquid.
The schematic matches the construction in circular symmetry - both are beautiful:
More pictures: complete gallery, including how it looks in daylight.
Posted by John Maushammer |
Dec 28, 2009 02:13 AM
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December 22, 2009
Moritz Waldemeyer's illuminated guitars
Moritz Waldemeyer made these fuzzy LED and laser Gibson Les Pauls for OKGO, which I think might notch them a smidgen above Daft Punk in total wearable volts. [via Fashioning Technology]
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Dec 22, 2009 11:00 AM
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December 20, 2009
Impressive WH40K LARP prop set
The idea of "live-action" Warhammer 40K is itself so ambitious that somebody needs to give this guy and his buddies a medal just for trying. Check out Flickr user Lt.E.Watt's photostream to see some more of the amazing props he/they have built to run their games. Blood for the blood god! Skulls for the skull throne! Spleens for the spleen pond! [via Propnomicon]
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Dec 20, 2009 07:00 PM
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December 14, 2009
LED kimono
Apparently it's Soft Circuit Monday here at MAKE (coindidentally), so here's another one: the LED kimono is by composer and performance artist Miya Masaoka and has 444 LEDs on the kimono sleeve which display animations. [via Fashioning Technology]
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Dec 14, 2009 11:09 AM
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OLED dress is stiff, from outer space
Gareth Pugh, an English fashion designer, made this OLED armor dress using fabric layered with "flexible" OLEDs. Seems like we've got a ways to go with this one, and that OLEDs might have better applications on harder wearables like motorcycle Daft Punk helmets. [via Fashioning Technology]
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Dec 14, 2009 08:10 AM
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December 13, 2009
Daft Punk helmet build process
Brandon has been doing some research into the manufacturing and design of a custom Daft Punk helmet. He points out this great build log on the project from Volpin Props:
Part one shows the process of creating the basic form out of cardboard, expanding foam, clay and other materials.
In part two, the process of making a mold of the original is detailed.
The Q & A edition is a response to a number of the questions fielded about the project and details a number of features of the electronics.
There is a lot to like here. If you've made an excellent object and want to have more, then check out Adam Savage's moldmaking primer from MAKE, Volume 08.
Posted by Chris Connors |
Dec 13, 2009 02:00 PM
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December 2, 2009
Bio Circuit: a wearable soundscape
Using a heart rate monitor, a hacked MP3 player and a LilyPad Arduino, Dana Ramler and Holly Schmidt developed a wearable bio circuit:
With each beat of the heart, Bio Circuit connects the wearer with the inner workings of their body. In this sense the garment functions like other biofeedback devices that use sensors to provide a person with information about their physiological state. With Bio Circuit, we are proposing that these kinds of devices could extend a person's awareness to include the environment.
[via Fashioning Tech]
Posted by Peter Horvath |
Dec 2, 2009 12:00 PM
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November 20, 2009
DIY Devo domes
Troy Davis created some very awesome recreations of Devo's signature Energy Domes. Beginning with a tiered stack of fiberboard for the mold, through to vacuum forming, paint job, and padding - a thorough explanation can be found in his project pictorial. sweet.
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Nov 20, 2009 05:31 AM
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November 17, 2009
Make: Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Santa Claus Machines
Santa's got the coolest tools. How else could he and his elves build all those gifts in time? Now, thanks to custom fabrication services, we can all get access to the Santa Claus Machines. From bespoke action figures, to interplanetary terrain models, from one-of-a-kind sneakers, to tailor-made machine parts, there has never been a better time to harness advanced fabrication tools to build objects of your own design! In this gift guide, we'll look at some of the leaders in the Santa Claus Machine revolution.
Big Blue Saw
If your gift plans call for something sturdier than wood or acrylic, you may need to move beyond laser cutters into a full-blown CNC machine shop. Enter Big Blue Saw. They have an intuitive browser-based CAD program where you can design your part, and then choose your material (aluminum, steel, etc.) and thickness. They'll fire up their water-jet machines, and in no time you'll have that rolled steel stocking stuffer in your hands.
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Posted by John Park |
Nov 17, 2009 08:30 AM
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November 9, 2009
Awesome kidnapped mermaid costume
From Instructables user ModMischief comes a great tutorial on building this impossibly clever one-person trompe l'oeil costume. As she says, "[w]hy choose between dressing as a sexy mermaid or a scary pirate when you could be both!"
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Nov 9, 2009 02:00 PM
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November 6, 2009
Two-person AT-AT costume
From Photobucket user 8jarjar8, this video of a Chinese-lion-dragon style AT-AT costume with lighted cheek-lasers. Don't really know anything about the makers/wearers. Anybody with info, please feel free to comment. [via Geekologie]
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Nov 6, 2009 01:00 AM
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November 5, 2009
Adorable stoplight costume
David King built this stoplight costume for his oldest daughter. It's his first Arduino project. Besides flashing the expected red, green, and yellow lights, it incorporates an Adafruit WaveShield to play music. [Thanks, David!]
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Nov 5, 2009 01:00 AM
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