Light-up Bow for a special gift wrapping
Need something special for Christmas, something unique? A bit of DIY and the fabulous instructions from Alison Lewis help you to create a sparkling light-up bow for your gift wrapping during this holiday season.
Alison Lewis, an expert when it comes to demystify technology and use it in unconventional ways as we have seen in one [...]
DIY – Simple Dark-Detecting LED Circuit
Next to Instructables the Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories is one of the interesting sites I regularly scan for simple, eTextile suitable projects.
As LEDs are one of the favorite components eTextile artists are using I had a look around on how to make LEDs come to life when it makes most sense – when it goes [...]
DIY eTextile ToolTime at Smart Textile Salon
eTextile enthusiasts who visit the Smart Textile Salon coming September 25th in Ghent, Belgium have the opportunity to participate in a one hour ToolTime session hosted by Mika Satomi.
There will be two sessions each has space for 30 participants. No registration for those workshops is necessary, it will be on a who comes first can [...]
LED Resistance Calculator for your pocket
The Evil Mad Scientist’s at their Laboratories have created a cute business sized card version of an LED Resistance Calculator, taking these calculators off-line and into your pocket.
As eTextile crafters use frequently LEDs I thought to beam up this DIY project for all those (including myself) who end up in front of rows of [...]
DIY – Light up your rainy days with an electric umbrella
Being stuck right now with days of grey summer rain I was looking around to light up my mood a bit and found an Instructables that might just be able to do this: the Electric Umbrella from sockmaster.
The project is fairly simple and good documented in the Instructables. What’s needed to bring sun shine into [...]
DIY Solar Power from Voltaic
Good news for DIY enthusiasts: more and more companies offer components from their product portfolio for DIY projects making it easy to explore their latest technologies.
Voltaic, well known as pioneer of solar power bags has added a DIY Solar Project Site offering solar panels, battery packs and a huge selection of connectors (it’s shocking to [...]
Equalizer T-Shirt hacking
Instructables member Mikey Berman points out that Equalizer T-Shirt come with rather simple, underpowered microphones which are usually inside the box that hold also the batteries. This little box is inside pocket on the T-Shirt making it quite insensitive to pick up all sounds around.
Those EQ T-Shirts have also no provision to connect an MP3 [...]
Neon Trim lights up your wardrobe
Want to add some sparkle to your wardrobe, cushions or bags? Neon Trim has a wide selection of soft, flexible Neon wires for DIY enthusiasts to add light elements to clothing and more.
The site is full of information about how EL (Electroluminescent) wires work and how to use them. Getting the next rocking stage wear [...]
Wearable Electronic DIY – a Blinking Fashion Statement
A recent article by Charlie Foster for Forbes.com about the wearable electronic DIY movement describes the ‘cross over point’ between the ‘boy’s only’ club of silicon based tinkering and the ‘arts-and-crafts’ community traditionally a more feminine domain.
The marriage of tech and fashion opens the doors for crafters to learn how to solder and tinkerers to [...]
Fashioning Technology: A DIY Introduction to Smart Crafting
Technology and crafting is a fast growing field judging on the many workshops and books that have been or will be released soon, helping all the ’smart crafters’ to get started and inspired.
The latest addition to our wearable electronic library comes from Syuzi Pakchyan: Fashioning Technology: A DIY Intro to Smart Crafting
Written for a broad [...]
