Day #4: Mo’ Pupils Mo’ Problems from Evan Roth on Vimeo. Folks in the Graffiti Research Lab/ FATlab/ whatever-it’s-called-these-days are working on a project that is truly awesome on so many levels. TEMPT ONE, a famous Los Angeles graffiti writer, has ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s Disease), which means at this point that he has little […]
Power Glove 20th Anniversary Edition — Build Video from Matt Mechtley on Vimeo. Matt Mechtley is responsible for this maker’s dream project: getting a classic Nintendo Power Glove to work with custom games by replacing it’s brain with an arduino, implanting an accelerometer for motion detection, and using a bluetooth modem for wireless connectivity. He’s […]
Get started with the LilyPad Arduino! It’s a sewable microcontroller that lets you embed lights, sounds, sensors, and much more into your wearables, perfect for clothing and accessories. In this video I’ll show you how to attach the LilyPad and power supply to each other, and upload a basic program that blinks an LED. You […]
Hannah Perner-Wilson is working on some really interesting sensing experiments including this potentiometer that’s controlled by sliding a large metal ball bearing around two conductive traces.
Patty Maes of the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab introduces what may be the must have gadget in the not so far future. The SixthSense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector […]
New from Sparkfun Electronics is the LilyPad protoboard, a way to easily whip up your own sewable electronics. Available in two sizes. This is a large board for prototyping through hole components with the LilyPad system. There are an array of pins all shorted together with 10mil traces. This allows for quick and easy prototyping […]
YouTube user lovelikerobots added lights to a neck-warmer a friend made for him and used a LilyPad Arduino and light sensor to make the lights blink when it’s dark. He’s got warmth, instant bike safety, not to mention style. Via Fashioning Technology.
