Wearables

Simple Light-Up Hoodie

Add some EL style to your wardrobe with this easy light-up hoodie.

Posted by Craig Couden

Categories: Craft, Electronics, Fun & Games | No Comments

Artist duo Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet collaborated with MTG researcher Sebastian Mealla to produce custom scarves featuring brainwave activity recorded with a non-invasive EEG headset. Brain activity such as...

Posted by Andrew Salomone | Thursday June 6th, 2013 2:32 PM

Categories: Arduino, Art & Design, Electronics, Hacks, Knitting | 2 Comments

How-To: TRON Bow

Becky and Phil's ongoing quest to TRON-ify the universe, begun back in the summer of 2010 in anticipation of the not-so-much-worth-all-the-anticipation-after-all TRON sequel, continues undeterred by disappointing directorial choices, secure...

Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday June 3rd, 2013 9:06 PM

Categories: Craft, Art & Design, Electronics | 3 Comments

How-To: Color-Matching Chameleon Scarf

Another cool wearables project from Adafruit Director of Wearable Electronics and MAKE alum Becky Stern. In this design, Becky is showing off the capabilities of Adafruit's FLORA wearable color sensor....

Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Saturday June 1st, 2013 8:25 PM

Categories: Sewing, Art & Design | 1 Comment

How-To: Electroluminescent Chuck Taylors

More wearables goodness from Becky over at Adafruit. Folks have been crowing about the advent of wearable electronics for a long time, of course, and while it's easy for prognosticators...

Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday May 31st, 2013 8:08 AM

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How-To: Shimmering LED Skirt

Becky's latest wearables project, over at adafruit, combines three components from their FLORA sewable electronics ecosystem—the microcontroller, the accelerometer/compass module, and the RGB LED "pixels"—to create a no-solder sewable circuit...

Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday April 25th, 2013 6:44 AM

Categories: Electronics | 7 Comments

Light-up E-Textile Kits and More from Fay Shaw

Crafter and engineer Fay Shaw, founder of bitwise E-textiles, is bringing both her charming light-up plush kits and her experience as a woman engineer and Maker to the Maker Faire...

Posted by Karen Tanenbaum | Monday April 22nd, 2013 11:37 AM

Categories: Craft, Electronics, Hackerspaces, Makers, Sewing | No Comments

Big Weekend for Bay Area Young Makers

We have another two wonderful Young Maker/Open Make events happening in the San Francisco Bay Area Saturday, March 16. Just like last month, you'll have to pick just one of...

Posted by Michelle "Binka" Hlubinka | Thursday March 14th, 2013 10:10 AM

Categories: Education, Kids & Family, Makers, Workshop | No Comments