Syuzi's Blog – March 2010 Archive (17)

Textile Inspiration: Beautiful Animated Textiles Using Small Motors

These lovely textile experiments by Meg Grant will certainly inspire you to start adding a bit of animation to your clothing.

Animated Textile

Meg began by creating folded paper patterns (example can be found here) that she then re-created with fabric. Using a small motor, the fabric structure opens and…

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Added by Syuzi on March 31, 2010 at 2:00pm — 3 Comments

Body Graffiti — A Kinetic Display Created Through Dance & Movement

Body Graffiti — A Kinetic Display

Body Graffiti is a performance art wearable technology that uses the illusion of persistence of vision (POV) to create ephemeral graffiti via body movement. As dancers (in this particular performance— break dancers) perform head spins, windmills and flares, messages programmed into the custom designed LED POV system are displayed.

I caught up with Younghui Kim, a New… Continue

Added by Syuzi on March 29, 2010 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

Kinetic Mechanical Skirt

There is something kinda nice about the analog interaction of Cooperjay Kim's kinetic skirt. Often when embedding sensor technologies into wearables, you are only privy to the reaction without really knowing the cause. Sensor technologies have a way of making the invisible (i.e. pollutants in the air) visible (i.e. LED patterns on dress) but the experience is entirely passive.…

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Added by Syuzi on March 26, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

Jimmy Choo's Illuminated Heels

Following on the heels of Lagerfeld and the Rodarte sisters, Jimmy Choo is the latest shoe designer to add a bit of twinkle to his SS 2010 collection.

The Zap Sandal, priced at $2,495… Continue

Added by Syuzi on March 24, 2010 at 5:30pm — 4 Comments

Tendrils: An Interactive Theaterical Costume

Tendrils—Kinetic Garment

Designed by Thecla Schiphorst in collaboration with Jinsil Seo, Tendrils is an theatrical costume that commands to be touched. Squeeze the draping tentacle-like structures and the dress "shivers" in response causing the colorful petals or scales to subtly move.

Actuated by a series of small, inter-connected motors and lights, the biological response "… Continue

Added by Syuzi on March 23, 2010 at 12:29pm — 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

Roundup of Creative Conductive Materials & E-textile Techniques

For you, this lovely Friday afternoon, I have gathered some fun and funky explorations by the DIY and e-textile community. From conductive liquid to conductive pompoms, I hope these material experiments will entice you make something this weekend!

Enjoy!

Snap-on LED for 9V Battery…

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Added by Syuzi on March 19, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Fashioning the Future: Digital Skins Body Atmoshperes

Nancy Tilbury, a course Director for a new postgraduate Fashion Programme at Kingston University, envisions the future of couture as digital skins cultivated in a nanotech atelier.

From electric nanobits that travel through veins to chemical couture fashions in the form of digestible pills, Tilbury creates an evocative and downright sensual portrayal of the future of haute-nanotech fashion in the year… Continue

Added by Syuzi on March 17, 2010 at 1:34pm — 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

Conductive Felt Fortune Teller

Conductive Felt

Designed by the sister duo Sarah and Lara Grant , Fortune Teller is a novel interface designed to work with the Arduino controller and Max/Msp. It is constructed from hand-made conductive felt made from a combination of steel wool and non-conductive wool fibers using dry felting techniques.

Conductive Felt

Dry…

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Added by Syuzi on March 9, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

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

Embroidered Conductive Braille Tapestry

Conductive Braille

Melissa Coleman developed a series of beautiful interactive textiles during her artist-in-residency at V2_. Her project titled Media VIntage was inspired by an article by Bruce Sterling in The Book of Imaginary Media, in which he points out that new media become obsolete faster than old ones.…

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Added by Syuzi on March 8, 2010 at 9:54am — 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

The project is designed by Drieux Catherine and a complete tutorial… Continue

Added by Syuzi on March 5, 2010 at 2:21pm — 2 Comments

LED Handshake Mitten Tutorial

LED Handshake Mitten

Nice tutorial on how to make a mitten that lights up when you hold hands, shake hands or give some-one a "high-five."

LED Handshake Mitten

The mitten is designed with two pieces of conductive fabric located around the thumb and across the palm that when touched by bare, ungloved skin turns on the… Continue

Added by Syuzi on March 4, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Beautiful Woven E-textile Tapestry

Woven E-textile Tapestry

E-static Shadows is a woven electronic textile, developed by Zane Berzina, that responds to electrostatic charges. Designed with hundreds of hand-soldered LED lights, transistors and a woven electronic circuit, the expansive textile display creates "transient shadows" in areas which detects a presence of electrostatic fields, feeding on the charges created by viewers and… Continue

Added by Syuzi on March 2, 2010 at 12:14pm — 2 Comments

OSLOOM: An Open Source Loom Project

Happy Monday ya'all! OSLOOM (open source loom) is a fabulous project that could use your support.

Your contributions can be as little at $1 to kickstart the R&D of this project & at a $15 pledge you receive a laser cut cardboard loom. Pretty cool!

To learn more, please visit Osloom.org

Also check out this… Continue

Added by Syuzi on March 1, 2010 at 1:05pm — No Comments