In the Maker Shed: Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas
Did you forget about Valentine’s Day (like I did) and need a gift for that special someone? Here are some great ideas from the “Geek Chic” category of the Maker Shed!
Wearables
Super-Simple Bat Glove
By now, hopefully, most of you will have seen Steve Hoeffer’s Tacit haptic wrist rangefinder project in MAKE Vol 29. MAKE regular David Prutchi recently saw it, and just sent me a link to this functionally similar device built by his daughter Hannah back in October. While Steve’s rangefinder goes “all out” with an embedded […]
If You Want to Destroy My Credit…
…hold this thread as I walk away. Artist Dimitri Tsykalov has four more of these giant knit credit cards on display over at Galerie Rabouan Moussion. Just don’t click past image 5/20 unless you want to see naked people covered in raw meat. [via adafruit]
Kinect Haptic Belt Helps the Blind to Navigate Obstacles
The viSparsh belt developed by Young India Fellows Rolly Seth, Jatin Sharma and Tushar Chugh in New Delhi with guidance by Rahul Mangharam of the University of Pennsylvania, is a computer vision assisted haptic feedback system that uses a Microsoft Kinect to detect objects near the wearer and notifies them through an array of vibration motors across the belt
Soft Circuit Suspenders Police your Posture
Tobias Sonne of Carnegie Mellon devised suspenders equipped with stretch sensors that detect differences in resistance depending on the user’s posture. If there is not enough stretch in the suspenders, a buzzer gives haptic feedback, alerting the user to sit up straight.
Half Hour Headphone Hat
Winter has fully arrived in Massachusetts. While digging through our “Hats” box today, I happened upon a flappy number from last year. Santa recently brought me some cheap headphones, and a few amplified speakers too (but those are for another project). Tonight turned out to be the time to merge the two into a Headphone […]
In the Maker Shed: E-Textiles Starter Kit
Do you want to get into E-textiles but need somewhere to begin? This E-textiles Starter Kit is the perfect way to get everything you need to get started all at once! Get the book Fashioning Technology, an LED Sewing Kit, and the Lilypad Beginner’s Kit!
