LED Shoe Clips Make Your Toes Twinkle
Twinkle toes! Make LED ruffles to customize your shoes in this CRAFT video. This easy soft circuit project can get you started in wearable electronics and even may help you find your way in a dark parking lot.
Wearables
Ready-to-Wear Android Wearable Platform
The WIMM Wearable Platform from WIMM Labs is a 1-inch square Android-powered module packed with 160×160 pixels of transflective display, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, Accelerometer, magnetometer, vibrator, speaker, and up to 32GB of microSD storage. Its 667 MHz processor means that it can operate independent of a secondary paired device and is positioned as a “first screen” device, similar to the iPod Nano, LiveView, inPulse, and Metawatch.
Kuniholm iPad Sleeve
Jonathan Kuniholm of OpenProsthetics.org wanted something to make using his iPad a little easier, so he came up with this sleeve design while spending time with his son at his local TechShop. Constructed of soft leather, the sleeve can either be warn with a glove and strap or easily held in place by an arm.
Psychedelic Video Coat
Check out this groovy video coat from YouTuber nixiebunny1. What appears to be an array of flex boards full of RGB LEDs attached to a standard lab coat, this iPod accessory seems like it would be a big hit at parties with a little tailoring.
TV-B-Gone Jacket
Becky Stern shows you how to embed a device to power down TVs in public places into a jacket, activated by a conductive thread zipper switch. More info: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/06/tv-b-gone_jacket.html Music by i am jen.
Follow up: “Real” Operation Game – Wearable Electronics (Bad Idea)
I posted a few old “wearable” projects yesterday, one of them I left out because I couldn’t find the files (and it was a bad idea) – but I found them today. It’s “Real Operation”. This project (2001) used a live web interface, built in Macromedia Flash, that allowed the web visitor to play the […]
Is the Rise of Wearable Electronics Finally Here?
For decades I’ve wanted interesting, beautiful, and (sometimes) functional electronics on the most personal geographies of all, myself. When I think of “living in the future,” it’s what springs to mind: subtle LEDs, lots of polished metal. In this week’s column I’m going to share some milestones, mistakes, and projects in the world of wearable […]
