Soft circuit hoodie warms, illuminates lucky dog
To help keep her dog Tucker warm and visible at night, Hack Pittsburgh member Val made him this awesome light-up dog hoodie.
Wearables
Lenticular Lego portrait
A lenticular image (Wikipedia) is really a set of two or more images printed on a sawtooth surface so that one image appears to change to another as an observer passes by. Flickr user Reasonably Clever Chris created a Lego version of the effect with a mosaic composed mostly of element number 50746, known among blockheads as “The Cheese Slope.” Check the vid to watch the transition, which happens about 35 seconds in. [via The Brothers Brick]
Pa++ern: Tweet-to-embroidery production
This art installation, originally designed by Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi, allows Twitter-users to tweet instructions to web site that replies with an example output. Upon approval it sends the design to a bank of industrial sewing machines which then embroider the resulting pattern onto a t-shirt. The web site still works, but not sure […]
Power-generating wearable tech couture
Dandelion is a wearable kinetic sculpture that generates electricity through small, flower-like windmills. [via Fashioning Technology]
MAKE Volume 21: EL wire primer
Here on Make: Online, we’ve featured lots of projects that use electrolumiscent wire, like the barbershop pole, the sequencing costume, and the angler fish. EL wire is a really flexible (pun intended) way to add lighting to your projects, and it’s fairly easy to use. In the newest issue of MAKE, Volume 21, we offer […]
Wearable cello
The garment is part of the Aeolia project on stretch sensing on the body. Whereas the backs used commercially available material, this piece uses our own explorations in knitted stretch sensing, created by Martha Glazzard at Nottingham Trent University using conductive yarn from Bekaert. The garment is also an exploration in fit and the control […]
Interactive napping screen
Kerry Jia Yi Lin designed this “hermit” shelter for public napping. While I agree with Syuzi Pakhchyan that the use of RFID to open and close the shelter is a bit of overkill, the servo-conrolled opening and closing of the hood is pretty nifty. Did I mention I also like naps? [via Fashioning Technology] More: […]
