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Laser Cut Costumes

We've been experimenting with the laser cutter to see what we can create. With a gear generator tool built by Dzl and an ability to draw some shapes, we created "Steampunk butterflies" and the very geeky steampunk backpack for a costume party.The laser cut butterflies and gears were made from ikea…See More

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Laser Cut Costumes

We've been experimenting with the laser cutter to see what we can create. With a gear generator tool built by Dzl and an ability to draw some shapes, we created "Steampunk butterflies" and the very geeky steampunk backpack for a costume party.The laser cut butterflies and gears were made from ikea…See More

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Razzle Dazzle - LED Suit

An interactive outfit made for a promotions company. 4 groups of RGB LED strands each have 3 primary colours. We used a small box to house an Arduino board w...

Video posted by Vanessa Carpenter 23 hours ago

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Vanessa Carpenter commented on Derrick Morales's blog post 'Interested in anyone who wants to take on this project'

Hi Derek, We'd love to work on this - we made a similar one you can see it here: http://vimeo.com/16706140 (a bit shorter) but we'd need to know where you're located. We're in Denmark and can ship out no…

Jan 18, 2011

Vanessa Carpenter commented on kristin neidlinger's blog post 'GER: Galvanic Extimacy Responder'

Seconding the technology and sensor question. Its a great idea, I love working with GSR, and nice design on the shirt, was there a reason for the shape/design of the shirt and collar?

Apr 16, 2010

SteampunkProfessor commented on Vanessa Carpenter's blog post 'Cold Feet - Interactive Wedding Bouquet'

Congratulations to you both. A wonderful piece of work too, such a fun idea!

Jan 15, 2010

Anders Mellbratt commented on Vanessa Carpenter's blog post 'Cold Feet - Interactive Wedding Bouquet'

Congrats!

Jan 14, 2010

Cold Feet - Interactive Wedding Bouquet

The couple (who met creating a critical corset that tightens when the wearer's heart rate goes up) have decided to take the leap and get married! We of course love biometrics and geekery and thus have decided that our wedding needs to be equally geeky. We've been working hard on taking our biometrics project into a new realm, detecting wedding emotions and datalogging the entire day.We're able to see at a glance, if the bride gets cold feet, or is just very excited by her bouquet. The bouquet…See More

Blog post by Vanessa Carpenter Jan 13, 2010

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Arbormorphic - ascribing tree form or attributes to a being or thing not tree.

Surface mount LEDs resting delicately on copper wires twined together to create beautiful shimmering LED trees, Arbormorphic - ascribing tree form or attributes to a being or thing not tree.We created a beautiful tree, a subtle christmas decoration so we could play with the art of multiplexing.The full blog post is here:…See More

A blog post by Vanessa Carpenter was featured Dec 17, 2009

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Arbormorphic - ascribing tree form or attributes to a being or thing not tree.

Surface mount LEDs resting delicately on copper wires twined together to create beautiful shimmering LED trees, Arbormorphic - ascribing tree form or attributes to a being or thing not tree.We created a beautiful tree, a subtle christmas decoration so we could play with the art of multiplexing.The full blog post is here:…See More

Blog post by Vanessa Carpenter Dec 16, 2009

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Vanessa Carpenter commented on Syuzi's blog post 'Illuminated Snowflake Ornament Tutorial'

Beautiful project, I've been looking for a project I can do while I wait for my conductive thread to arrive! Thank you!

Dec 3, 2009