MAKE Magazine: Wearables http://blog.makezine.com/blog/archive/wearables/ MAKE is a quarterly publication from O'Reilly for those who just can't stop tinkering, disassembling, re-creating, and inventing cool new uses for the technology in our lives. It's the first do-it-yourself magazine dedicated to the incorrigible and chronically incurable technology enthusiast in all of us. MAKE celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend technology any way you want. en-us Copyright 2009, O'Reilly Media, Inc. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:31:20 -0800 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:40:12 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.24-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss MAKE Magazine http://makezine.com/images/make120x60.gif http://blog.makezine.com/ O'Reilly Media, Inc. Technology on Your Time Join MAKE magazine for a Weekend project each week you can build yourself! MAKE is a quarterly publication from O'Reilly for those who just can't stop tinkering, disassembling, re-creating, and inventing cool new uses for the technology in our lives. It's the first do-it-yourself magazine dedicated to the incorrigible and chronically incurable technology enthusiast in all of us. MAKE celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend technology any way you want. MAKE on iTunes is produced by Kip Kay and Phillip Torrone. webmaster@makezine.com Technology no DIY Devo domes Troy Davis created some very awesome recreations of Devo's signature Energy Domes. Beginning with a tiered stack of fiberboard for the mold, through to vacuum forming, paint job, and padding - a thorough explanation can be found in his... diyDevoHats_cc.jpg
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Troy Davis created some very awesome recreations of Devo's signature Energy Domes. Beginning with a tiered stack of fiberboard for the mold, through to vacuum forming, paint job, and padding - a thorough explanation can be found in his project pictorial. sweet.

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Santa's got the coolest tools. How else could he and his elves build all those gifts in time? Now, thanks to custom fabrication services, we can all get access to the Santa Claus Machines. From bespoke action figures, to interplanetary terrain models, from one-of-a-kind sneakers, to tailor-made machine parts, there has never been a better time to harness advanced fabrication tools to build objects of your own design! In this gift guide, we'll look at some of the leaders in the Santa Claus Machine revolution.

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Big Blue Saw
If your gift plans call for something sturdier than wood or acrylic, you may need to move beyond laser cutters into a full-blown CNC machine shop. Enter Big Blue Saw. They have an intuitive browser-based CAD program where you can design your part, and then choose your material (aluminum, steel, etc.) and thickness. They'll fire up their water-jet machines, and in no time you'll have that rolled steel stocking stuffer in your hands.


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From Instructables user ModMischief comes a great tutorial on building this impossibly clever one-person trompe l'oeil costume. As she says, "[w]hy choose between dressing as a sexy mermaid or a scary pirate when you could be both!"

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From Photobucket user 8jarjar8, this video of a Chinese-lion-dragon style AT-AT costume with lighted cheek-lasers. Don't really know anything about the makers/wearers. Anybody with info, please feel free to comment. [via Geekologie]

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David King built this stoplight costume for his oldest daughter. It's his first Arduino project. Besides flashing the expected red, green, and yellow lights, it incorporates an Adafruit WaveShield to play music. [Thanks, David!]

In the Maker Shed:

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Eric Lowry built this sweet WoW magic-user costume for his son. It has LED health and mana bars, LED magic power in the gloves, and an LED, er, "touch-sensitive fairy companion." There's one Arduino for the gloves and status bars, and another for the companion.

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Pretty amazing costume build tutorial from Instructables user Incrxtc.

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OK, my awesome meter has kind of overloaded on this one. Everett Bradford's "Prometheus Device" is a hand-mounted appliance that shoots, like, real fire. It looks, you know, dangerous, and all, but it's so cool I don't really care. And he's done a great job documenting the build, although obviously no one should attempt this who doesn't know what they're doing. Amazing work, Everett. Thanks!

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

There's still time left to enter the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Deadline is 11:59 PM PST, November 3rd. Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

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Instructables user msraynsford presents this detailed tutorial on how to build a prop replica of one of those District 9 guns that makes intelligent, loving, civilized creatures explode with a nauseating SPLAT. I want one!

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Really sweet Mario costume with built-in classic sound-effects from Adafruit forum member djmacatack. It uses an Arduino with an Adafruit WaveShield. [Thanks, Becky!]

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

There's still time left to enter the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Deadline is 11:59 PM PDT, November 3rd. Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

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Well, OK, I think it's really three pieces. But the head and body are a single piece which eliminates the neck seam and makes the effect way more realistic. Then each hand/forearm is one piece, but those seams are concealed by the tattered shirt. A commercial product from TheHorrorDome.com. [via Boing Boing]

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

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From YouTuber peaugh. No details on the build, unfortunately. [Thanks, Billy!]

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

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Despite it's title, I don't think that this Happiness Hat by Lauren McCarthy is very jolly at all. Intended to help one train themselves to smile, it uses a bend sensor to detect if it's wearer is smiling, and then stabs them with a meta spike (!) if they aren't. I could easily imagine this being part of the official dress code in some creepy dystopian society. Interesting take on a personal augmentation device, though. [via core77]

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From instructables user depotdevoid comes this awesome Ghostbusters costume tutorial. Besides the proton pack, he made a trap, a pair of "ecto goggles," and the obligatory jumpsuit. "Aim for the flattop!"

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.


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In this video, Nick Valenza shows how he builds realistic replicas of Ash's infamous chainsaw prosthesis using parts from real chainsaws. Groovy!

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

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Brookelynn @ CRAFT writes:

This dress is called the "Itchy Dress," and it uses kinetic energy to power lights in the garment. It's part of a fashion collection code-named "Captain Electric and Battery Boy" by XS Labs in Montreal.
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via waxy and procrastineering.

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From Creatrope. The mechanism of the tongue is made from Lego elements.

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This LED eyelash getup by Soomi Park is pretty neat, and uses a set of headphones to house the tilt sensor and other electronics. A little spirit gum goes a long way for affixing things to your face! [via Fashioning Technology]

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I'm not sure exactly what it means to be "hell bent for leather," but I am sure that this is the outfit you want to be wearing while you're thusly engaged. Prince Armory is (mostly) Samuel Lee, who goes by *Azmal on deviantART. Beautiful craftsmanship. [via Geekologie]

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Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

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Tom Banwell is one of the artists featured in the currently-ongoing Steampunk exhibition at Oxford's Old Ashmolean building. Shown here is "Sentinel." [via Propnomicon]

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Anthony Tedesco created this Halloween costume with flashing electroluminescent wire for his son and entered it in the Make: Halloween Contest 2009. More pics of the costume and the build, including a schematic, are available in his photostream. The EL strand sequencing is controlled by a Microchip PIC10F202.

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

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Mario Caicedo Langer just posted a bunch of pics to the Make: Flickr Pool showing off his "Battlizer."

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

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Instructables user jtigermask13 has posted a tutorial on making these working children's iPod costumes.

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

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These impossibly creepy artifacts are just the tip of the iceberg of awesometasticness that is Steve Erenberg's Radio Guy. Be warned, Steve's site is chockablock with incredible medical, scientific, and industrial antiques he's collected, mostly from the 19th and early 20th centuries, and is a major click-trap.

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CRAFT and MAKE friend Diana Eng a new wearable tech project going on; it looks awesome! The project description:

From October to December 2009, I will be making magical clothes for Fairytale Fashion. These might be clothes that have blooming flowers, living clothes that breathe, change color, transform. And guess what, YOU will be leading the design! Each Monday, FairytaleFashion.org will have a new video that introduces a technology like inflatables, deployable structures, muscle wire and microcontrollers. At the end of each video is a design question. Answer the weekly design questions on our website. I will use your answers to create the Fairytale Fashion. Finally, the finished garments will be presented in a fashion show in early 2010. Fairytale Fashion is produced with the support of Eyebeam.

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Here's your unicorn chaser for Sunday's exploded corpse made of construction paper. Reader Mike Wakefield made this robot costume for his son, Arlen. It has batteries and blinky lights! Beep boop beep!

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

]]> <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/sweet_kids_robot_costume.html" />Read more</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/sweet_kids_robot_costume.html" /> Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/sweet_kids_robot_costume.html#comments" />Comments</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/halloween/" />Read more articles in Halloween</a> | <a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2009%2F10%2Fsweet_kids_robot_costume.html&title=Sweet%20kid%26apos%3Bs%20robot%20costume&bodytext=Reader%20Mike%20Wakefield%20made%20this%20robot%20costume%20for%20his%20son%2C%20Arlen.%20%20It%20has%20batteries%20and%20blinky%20lights%21%20%20Beep%20boop%20beep%21&topic=tech_news" />Digg this!</a> http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/sweet_kids_robot_costume.html http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/sweet_kids_robot_costume.html Halloween Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:00:00 -0800 Dalek wheelchair costume Check out YouTube user YellowWheels' channel for another pretty sweet chair costume.

Check out YouTube user YellowWheels' channel for another pretty sweet chair costume.

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

]]> <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/dalek_wheelchair_costume.html" />Read more</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/dalek_wheelchair_costume.html" /> Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/dalek_wheelchair_costume.html#comments" />Comments</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/halloween/" />Read more articles in Halloween</a> | <a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2009%2F10%2Fdalek_wheelchair_costume.html&title=Dalek%20wheelchair%20costume&bodytext=Check%20out%20YouTube%20user%20YellowWheels%26apos%3B%20channel%20for%20another%20pretty%20sweet%20chair%20costume.%20&topic=tech_news" />Digg this!</a> http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/dalek_wheelchair_costume.html http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/dalek_wheelchair_costume.html Halloween Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:09:59 -0800 Stone Golem costume It's old news, but this awesome foam Golem suit from live action role players in New Zealand just caught my eye. I

It's old news, but this awesome foam Golem suit from live-action role-players in New Zealand just caught my eye.

]]> <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/stone_golem_costume.html" />Read more</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/stone_golem_costume.html" /> Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/stone_golem_costume.html#comments" />Comments</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/halloween/" />Read more articles in Halloween</a> | <a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2009%2F10%2Fstone_golem_costume.html&title=Stone%20Golem%20costume&bodytext=It%26apos%3Bs%20old%20news%2C%20but%20this%20awesome%20foam%20Golem%20suit%20from%20live%20action%20role%20players%20in%20New%20Zealand%20just%20caught%20my%20eye.&topic=tech_news" />Digg this!</a> http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/stone_golem_costume.html http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/stone_golem_costume.html Halloween Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:30:00 -0800 How-To: "Operation" costume You know, you kind of have to see it blown up to life-size before you realize just how creepy the "Operation" game really is. Outstanding costume build by Instructables user NavySWO91. It works just like the game! operation_costume_02.jpg

operation_costume_01.jpg

You know, you kind of have to see it blown up to life-size before you realize just how creepy the "Operation" game really is. Outstanding costume build by Instructables user NavySWO91. It works just like the game!

Make: Halloween Contest 2009

Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.

]]> <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/how-to_operation_costume.html" />Read more</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/how-to_operation_costume.html" /> Permalink</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/how-to_operation_costume.html#comments" />Comments</a> | <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/halloween/" />Read more articles in Halloween</a> | <a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2009%2F10%2Fhow-to_operation_costume.html&title=How-To%3A%20%20%26quot%3BOperation%26quot%3B%20costume&bodytext=You%20know%2C%20you%20kind%20of%20have%20to%20see%20it%20blown%20up%20to%20life-size%20before%20you%20realize%20just%20how%20creepy%20the%20%26quot%3BOperation%26quot%3B%20game%20really%20is.%20Outstanding%20costume%20build%20by%20Instructables%20user%20NavySWO91.%20It%20works%20just%20like%20the%20game%21&topic=tech_news" />Digg this!</a> http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/how-to_operation_costume.html http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/how-to_operation_costume.html Halloween Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:51:40 -0800