Fluid Dress is Knit from Plastic Tubing
Fluid Dress 2.0! Lovely video of blacklight-reactive fluid being pumped through the 600 ft of plastic tubing comprising this dress by Casual Profanity. We saw an earlier prototype at Maker Faire Bay Area 2009.
Technology
Review: Martha Stewart iPad Digital Issue
It’s not every day that I read about Martha Stewart on the social media news site Mashable. I’d heard great feedback about Martha’s very first digital issue and was very excited to see it come to life. After spending some time with my boyfriend’s iPad Sunday night, I must say, I’m a fan. Whether you […]
Circuit Board Slippers
Ravelry user Katie Kent (Monroe, WA) made her husband a pair of felted clogs that look like circuit boards. I like them a lot! She modified a knitted clog pattern by Bev Galeskas. [Link requires Ravelry login.]
Laser-Cut Banana
What’s next, Louis-Vuitton fruit? Laser-cut banana by Wouter Walmink on Repper. [via BoingBoing]
Bike Helmet Fashion: Airbag Collar Depoys on Impact
Hövding, the inflatable airbag collar for cyclists, is developed by Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin. Don’t miss the safety video showing the thing deploying in the instant of impact. [via Fashioning Technology]
How-To: Hack Your Knitting Machine
Learn to connect the Brother KH-930e knitting machine to any computer to knit any pattern you can create in a graphics program like Photoshop or Paint in this week’s CRAFT Video. This video tutorial supplements Ladyada’s knitting machine hacking tutorial, which provides more detail on things like making the custom serial cable. Limor and I […]
How-To: Hacking the Brother KH-930e Knitting Machine
Limor “Ladyada” Fried and I just finished up a extensive tutorial on hacking the Brother KH-930e knitting machine. We show you how to make your own cable for interfacing with the machine, then how to use it to put custom patterns on the machine without entering them by hand, as I had been doing previously […]
