North-Finding LED Skirt – CRAFT Video
Meredith Scheff shows off her LED compass skirt at Maker Faire Bay Area 2010.
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/05/north-finding_led_skirt.html
Wearables
Giant cardboard robot suit
Jason Lentz shows off his impressive cardboard exoskeleton at Maker Faire. To hear Jason tell it, the arms were the only tricky part to make. There’s more info at the project’s Facebook group and in Jason’s Flickr collection.
Maker Faire: Show off your wearable tech fashion!
Nat @ CRAFT writes: On the first day of Maker Faire Saturday May 22nd, a wearable computing fashion show, eTextile is looking for designers to show their creations at 3 p.m. on the Fiesta Hall stage. The producer of the show Lynne Bruning would love to see kids and teenagers bring their wearable computers to […]
Young Maker Voices: Lucy Leith on Maker Faire
Here’s one of my favorite notes ever. It’s from a Lucy Leith, about her experience at Maker Faire, which she attended last year with her dad, Andy. My name is Lucy Leith, and I am a 13-year-old maker. I heard about Maker Faire through MAKE magazine, and thought that it would be a cool thing […]
LilyPad Arduino survey researches feminism and HCI
Alicia Gibb (NYCResistor and Bug Labs) is doing research on the use of the LilyPad Arduino in response to this call for Feminism in HCI out out by Shaowen Bardzell (Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing) and Elizabeth F. Churchill (Yahoo! Research), which will culminate in a special issue of Interacting with Computers . […]
How-To: Insulin pump fashion
Jessica Floeh has been developing Hanky Pancreas, an empowering fashion line designed around insulin pumps (for type 1 diabetics). She made a tutorial to get you started on your own: This tutorial will show you how to make a simple piece inspired by my transformative fashion collection, Hanky Pancreas . The current collection is for […]
“Fashion Engineer” Janet Hansen
Nice Motherboard profile of self-proclaimed “Fashion Engineer” Janet Hansen, whose lighted costumery has been used on Dancing with the Stars, and by Daft Punk and Kanye West, among others. In this episode of Motherboard, Janet shows us her San Diego studio and explains her technique for coaxing the robot side out of some of the […]
