Archive: Fashion Tech

April 16, 2012

Nixie Tube Necklace

Etsy user electronico created this Nixie Tube Necklace. So if you love nixie tubes, now you can keep one close to your heart at all times.

[via technabob]

April 2, 2012

LED Strip T-shirt

Jerry Isdale of Maui Makers created this LED strip t-shirt with waterproof LED strips and a programmable microcontroller and then wore it to teach a class in. According to Jerry, "adding other effects (like a beating heart, or other animations) is simple matter of programming."

[via adafruit]

March 23, 2012

E-Textiles Video Series

If you want to learn the latest in DIY wearable tech, fashioning technology, soft circuits and eTextiles, make sure to check out Lynne Bruning's web site. The videos offer tips and how-to techniques to get you going.

March 21, 2012

Color Changing Electric Dress Teaser

Oooh, pretty! This crazy cool teaser trailer featuring an electrically charged color changing dress is mesmerizing. The clip is short enough that I watched it, like, 10 times. The future is now, people!

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March 7, 2012

Night Biking Gloves

Sean over at MAKE posted these practical "Early Winter Night Biking Gloves" from Irene Posch at Fashion Technology. The gloves have an LED arrow on the back that lights up when the user needs to make a turn, so that the biker will be more visible to motorists on dark nights.

The Early Winter Night Biking Gloves consist of knitted wool gloves having conductive areas on each fingertip as well as on the palm of the hand. When forming a fist they close an electric circle, causing the LED-arrow at the back of the hand to light up. A 3V coin cell battery needed to power the LEDs is hidden in the cuff of the gloves.

More:

• DIY iPhone Gloves
• How-To: Knit fingerless Gloves

February 9, 2012

Beaded eTextile Pac-Man Cuff

I was lucky enough to be asked to speak at the Michigan Girl Geek Dinner in East Lansing last night (more on that to come!). I had a great time and saw some wonderful projects guests were working on, including this Pac-Man cuff crated by bead and fiberart artist Jenny Schu. Jenny has been beading for years, but she just recently started experimenting with eTextiles - this cuff has conductive thread running through it to help making the small lights turn on when the cuff is snapped together. Pretty fantastic!

February 7, 2012

How-To: Earmuff Headphones

Need a fuzzier pair of headphones? Check out this tutorial on how to make your own earmuff headphones from Syuzi of Fashioning Tech.

Four Years of Making

Dear beloved CRAFT readers,

Today is my last day as Senior Video Producer for MAKE & CRAFT. The past four years have been, undoubtedly, the best times of my life so far. I'm immensely thankful to have been a part of such a dedicated and talented team -- they're like family to me. While you won't be seeing me on the blog, Make: Live, or CRAFT videos any longer, this isn't so much "goodbye" as "see you around." I'll always be a proud member of the maker community.

After a little time off, I'll be taking a position at Adafruit Industries, heading up the wearable electronics group, and of course, you know I can't resist making videos. I'm delighted to dig into more ambitious projects than ever before, so I hope you'll check them out.

I thought I'd share some of my "greatest hits" videos from over the years, so I've compiled a list over on MAKE.

You can check out my entire body of video work for MAKE/CRAFT in the Becky's Workshop YouTube playlist, and if you want to keep up with my projects, follow me on Twitter. See you around the tubes!

January 9, 2012

Make: Live Wednesday 1/11 (preview video)

Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! It's our season two premiere, and we'll take a peek at projects from the new MAKE Volume 29, learn about an innovative dog toy, and hang out together live in the chat.

We also give away a fabulous prize to one chat member who can solve our photo challenge. This week it's a prize package from Maker Shed! This week one of you will win:

• Mintronics: Survival Pack
• Pulse Sensor
• LilyPad Beginner's Kit
• MAKE Ultimate Kit Guide

Make: Live 24
Wednesday January 11th, 9pm ET/6pm PT
Watch at makezine.com/live or on UStream
Please join us in the UStream chat or mark tweets with #makelive to interact live with the show.

Want to show us your project? Email live@makezine.com and you could be featured on an upcoming episode!

Guest info after the jump.

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January 6, 2012

Beating Heart Headband

In this episode of Becky's Workshop, learn to make a headband that glows with your heart beat. First construct a stretchy headband from brocade and grosgrain ribbon, then embed the circuit boards and clip the sensor to your ear. You can find the Beating Heart Headband in MAKE v29, and see the complete how-to on Make: Projects.

Subscribe to the CRAFT Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube or Vimeo. Thanks to Britex Fabrics for the ribbon.

More:

• Open Heart LED Hoodie
• Collin's Lab: Infrared heart sensor
• LilyPad Arduino 101
• iPhone Gloves
• TV-B-Gone Jacket

December 15, 2011

Holiday Projects on Make: Live (video)

Make: Live's holiday episode features some fun project ideas for this festive time of year! See a skirt light up when you dance, a brass rocking horse ornament, and connect your Christmas decorations to the internet. Above, Ben Light demonstrates his technique for these mini paper stars, which fit onto your Christmas lights to create a strand of festive glowing stars.

Subscribe to the Make: Live Podcast in iTunes, watch Make: Live episode 22 in its entirety (or download in m4v format). Also check out the chat room transcript!

Bona Kim - Dance Party Twinkle Skirt

This LED-enhanced skirt uses an accelerometer to light up brighter the more vigorously you dance-- perfect for holiday parties.

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November 4, 2011

How-To: Keep Your Fly From Falling Down

This useful "first world solution" to a fly that won't stay zipped was posted on reddit by user ANatale (warning: NSFW). The original tutorial was written in a vernacular reminiscent of The Wu-Tang Clan's seminal "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)," so I've just posted the images here.

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