Desaturated Santa costume
No, they haven’t been photoshopped. Brody S. made this awesome black-and-white Santa suit for San Francisco Santa Con 2009. [via Dude Craft]
Wearables
How-To: Build a vintage diving helmet prop
Interesting tutorial over on Propnomicon, by Richard Bird, who built this vintage diving helmet replica prop for a recent LARP adventure for London’s The Dark Door group.
Stretch sensitive bracelet
Hannah Perner-Wilson made this stretch sensitive bracelet that doesn’t light up until you wear it. It’s knit from resistive and traditional yarn, and also uses conductive thread.
Ring Oscillator Pendant
When you connect an odd number of digital logic inverters in a ring, you’ll get a Ring Oscillator – one of the simplest types. This configuration has no stable state, so the 1s and 0s chase each other around the ring, creating oscillations. Normally this isn’t easy to visualize, but Make Flickr Pool contributor ellindsey000 […]
Moritz Waldemeyer’s illuminated guitars
Moritz Waldemeyer made these fuzzy LED and laser Gibson Les Pauls for OKGO, which I think might notch them a smidgen above Daft Punk in total wearable volts. [via Fashioning Technology] More: OKGO LED jackets
Impressive WH40K LARP prop set
The idea of “live-action” Warhammer 40K is, itself, so ambitious that somebody needs to give this guy and his buddies a medal just for trying. Check out Flickr user Lt.E.Watt’s photostream to see some more of the amazing props he/they have built to run their games. Blood for the blood god! Skulls for the skull throne! Spleens for the spleen pond! [via Propnomicon]
LED kimono
Apparently it’s Soft Circuit Monday here at MAKE (coindidentally), so here’s another one: the LED kimono is by composer and performance artist Miya Masaoka and has 444 LEDs on the kimono sleeve which display animations. [via Fashioning Technology]
