Syuzi Pakhchyan, author of Fashioning Technology, will be hosting a soft circuit workshop in Los Angeles on February 22! The first half of the workshop will be an overview of different conductive textiles and threads available commercially as well as a demo of a variety of soft switches, sensors and controls. For the second part […]
New NYC based hacker group HTINK has a day of workshops coming up for the electronically curious – perfect for those looking for a some orientation in the Arduino world. Eric writes – This is a combination of 3 workshops, being offered over 5 hours. Anyone can come buy and build a freeduino kit while […]
Syuzi Pakhchyan, author of Fashioning Technology, will be hosting a soft circuit workshop in Los Angeles on February 22! The first half of the workshop will be an overview of different conductive textiles and threads available commercially as well as a demo of a variety of soft switches, sensors and controls. For the second part […]
The Steel Yard in Providence RI has just announced their Spring and Summer Community Courses. The Potential of Sheet Metal: Cold and Hot sounds kind of interesting: Registration is now open for the Steel Yard’s Spring/Summer 2009 Course Season! Highlights for the upcoming months of warmth include, Sculptural Ceramics, Glass Casting, Building Bike Trailers, and […]
Providence Daily Dose has the scoop on the upcoming Roller Races to benefit Recycle-a-Bike, Providence’s volunteer-run bicycle maintenance and education collective: What are roller races? Two riders at a time, sprint out 500m trials, on single speed track bikes strapped to a set of rollers. Rollers are wired up to an electronic clock that simulates […]
In May there will be an extended workshop in wearable art and interactive performance at Arizona State University: Workshop participants will explore emergent electronic technologies for performance and installation framed by the theme Lunar Outpost. Interactive technologies offer the means to extend, manipulate, and add color to our environments in a new manner. Workshop participants […]
(shown above: the RFID project we’ll be using in Tom Igoe’s Hands-On RFID for Makers workshop) RFID’s are associated with credit cards, passports and inventory systems. However, they can also be used to add a proximity interaction to a service like entering a subway via a passkey (Jan Chipchase has several posts describing these interactions […]
