All Blog Posts Tagged 'DIY' (19)

LED Ampli-Tie Tutorial by Adafruit

If you've been wanting to tinker with your newly purchased…

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Added by Syuzi on March 5, 2013 at 12:24pm — No Comments

DIY Mobile Phone

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Added by Syuzi on June 20, 2012 at 11:45am — No Comments

Flora - A Wearable Electronics Platform

Just in case you missed it, Adafruit designed a new robust wearable electronics platform named Flora. The video above explains…

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Added by Syuzi on January 23, 2012 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Deja Vu A DIY RFID Purse That Helps You Remember Your Keys

MIT students Heidi Chen and Nicole Tariverdian have designed a lovely "smart" bag that ensures that you will never leave home without your essentials.…

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Added by Syuzi on July 5, 2011 at 12:19pm — 2 Comments

Heels Fit for the Moon

Spanish artist Alicia Framis invited a number of artists, architects and designers to fashion speculative designs for objects and garments for life on the Moon.…

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Added by Syuzi on June 29, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

DIY El Wire & Displays

Jeri Ellsworth shows you how to make your own EL wire and displays. Pretty cool! Also check out the OLED tutorial. I <3 this woman!

Enjoy.…

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Added by Syuzi on November 29, 2010 at 10:24am — 3 Comments

Sparkfun recently released a few new Lilypad components adding to the growing library of Lilypad Arduino gear.

The most significant development is the LilyPad Arduino Simple Board ($19.95). The difference between the Simple Board vs the… Continue

Added by Syuzi on October 11, 2010 at 12:13pm — 2 Comments

Programmable LED Umbrella

Anyone want to be "fireworks" for Halloween? Well I've got the best tutorial for you...

This remarkable LED umbrella is creating from an 8x8 matrix of LEDs sewn using conductive thread. In addition, the project uses a MAX7219 LED Controller, a voltage converter and an arduino mini pro.

Best part... it's an Instructable so you can learn to make one yourself… Continue

Added by Syuzi on October 11, 2010 at 11:15am — 2 Comments

Fabrickit from Studio5050

Fabrickit

Fabrickit, a new e-textile development kit from Studio 5050, will be launched at the Maker Faire NYC.

Fabrickit

The kit is a fairly simple e-textile kit that allows you to add LEDs to textiles. What separates FabricKit from the Lilypad and Aniomagic family is that the FabricKit system forgoes the use of… Continue

Added by Syuzi on September 16, 2010 at 10:00am — 4 Comments

Conductive Playdoh and Squishy Circuits

Conductive Playdoh

Ok how cool is conductive playdoh?! No seriously. Pretty darn cool!

Samuel Johnson, an undergraduate student at the University of St. Thomas, with the help of his prof. Dr. AnnMarie Thomas, made conductive dough as a fun teaching tool for a middle school science curriculum. Middle school students seems a little old for toying with playdoh but I think K-12 may be a more appropriate… Continue

Added by Syuzi on July 19, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Crocheted Stretch Sensor Tutorial

Lovely tutorial by Lara Grant on how to crochet a stretch sensor using yarn, conductive thread and elastic.

Hope this inspires you to make something this… Continue

Added by Syuzi on May 31, 2010 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Electromode—Wearable Tech Fashion Kits

Wearable Tech Fashion Kits

I absolutely love the idea of DIY fashion kits — especially when they involve wearable technology. They are a sustainable means of production that involve and engage the creativity of the end-consumer.

I first learned about Valérie Lamontagne's DIY fashion kits at V2. I am so excited to see the final… Continue

Added by Syuzi on May 24, 2010 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

DIY Thin Flexible PCBs

I love discovering new materials especially anything closely useful for creating soft circuits. Meredith Scheff made these awesome thin, flexible PCB boards using DuPont's Pyralux Copper Clad Laminate.

DIY Thin Flexible PCBs

The material is thin enough… Continue

Added by Syuzi on May 6, 2010 at 1:00pm — 5 Comments

Frogr: E-Textile Lilypad Shield

E-Textile Lilypad Shield

One of my greatest frustrations with the Lilypad Arduino is the inability to swap out the microcontroller to use in different projects. This is particularly ineffective when I'm teaching workshops and I have ten different e-textile samples I want to demo — I always revert to using the Arduino Duemilanove because of it's flexibility.

Frogr, developed by Angella Mackey and… Continue

Added by Syuzi on April 28, 2010 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Arachnid LED Belt

I made this arachnid LED belt to wear to SXSW a few weeks back and I just got around to photographing it. The belt itself is made from searsucker fabric and the critter is constructed using buttons covered in wool and a variety of beads. It's a simple project so I don't think a tutorial is needed. If you've worked with LEDs before, the project should take you between 2-3 hours to craft.

Arachnid LED Belt

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Added by Syuzi on April 4, 2010 at 4:12pm — No Comments

Computational Knit Bag Tutorial

Know it All bag

I know absolutely nothing about knitting let alone knitting chart keys but this great tutorial developed by Kalani Craig is a wonderful introduction to computational textiles for crafters.

Craig combines knitting with the computational powers of the Lilypad Arduino to create a handbag decorated with 10 LEDs that act as a row counter and a charted pattern.…

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Added by Syuzi on March 22, 2010 at 2:11pm — No Comments

Wearable Lilypad POV Wrist Band

Lilypad POV Wrist Band

Here's a great tutorial by Benjamin Zaitlen on how to make your own Lilypad Persistence of Vision wristband.

As Zaitlen explains:

"Persistence of Vision (POV) is the illusion that an image continues to persist even though the image has changed. In essence, we are taking advantage of the limitations of the brain-eye processing time. With a camera we can tune our… Continue

Added by Syuzi on March 10, 2010 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Duh ... It's Like Tech for Girls at SXSW

SXSW

I'd like to invite everyone to a core conversation that the lovely Alison Lewis from Ihearswitch.com and I are hosting as SXSW titled “Duh…It’s Like Tech for Girls <3.”

Information below:

Duh ... It's Like Tech for Girls <3

SXSW Interactive, Austin, TX

Monday, March 15, 11am, ACC 7

Our session is not a panel or a talk, but a core… Continue

Added by Syuzi on March 8, 2010 at 12:17pm — 1 Comment

Laser Cut 3D Rimambelle Shawl Tutorial

Rimambelle Shawl

Happy Friday Everyone. Just wanted to give you a bit of creative inspiration to take you into your weekend.

Rimambelle is laser cut shawl that uses a repetitive 2D pattern to create beautiful, 3D shawl.

The pattern is a simple square of 7x7cm with incisions, cut out 80 times in a 100% wool fabric.

Rimambelle Shawl