Wearables Master Class – Design the symbiosis of digital components and clothing
Building on the last workshop: Designing Hybrid Wearables, Mediamatic organizes an advanced wearable course from Apr. 15 to 18 in Oosterdokskade 5, Amsterdam: Wearables Master Class – Design the symbiosis of digital components and clothing
Trainers, lecturers & assistants for this workshop: Leah Buechley, Maurin Donneaud, Vincent Roudaut, Anouk Wipprecht and Dirk van Oosterbosch.
This highly creative [...]
DIY project: Soft-circuit LED Bracelet
Keep it simple yet effective is the tag-line of the DIY project ‘Soft-circuit LED Bracelet‘ available for inspiration and do-it-yourself production by Instructables.com
The creator of the instructable, REACTIVEFashion, shows a quick and easy way how to make a sparkling fabric bracelet without the need of a solder iron.
The bracelet is build in a similar to [...]
Cute Christmas gift – Wearable Electronic Sewing Kit
I found a cute, simple electronic sewing kit offered by aniomagic.com that can make the perfect Christmas gift for the creative people among our reader.
You might not be able to create with this kit such attention magnets like Moritz Waldermeyer did recently but you can create cute little Wearable Electronic fashion accessories for your bag [...]
DIY Solar powered Bicycle Helmet
Another funstastic weekend is ahead of us so I thought to bring up something for the fun and creative side of you.
A DIY project seems to fit this requirements well and if a DIY project is somehow related to Wearable Electronic, we are hooked.
Caleb John Clark, a men who likes to document, distill and disseminate [...]
LED Hat gives a new meaning to … Hats
I have to lift my hat, so to speak, to wu-lee for the creation of the LED Hat. This concept of Wearable Electronic might not fall into the latest fashion trend but I do admire the creativity that motivated wu-lee to make this demonstrator.
You can find on this Site more details how wu-lee designed and [...]
Wearable Electronic DIY project: digg-me Shirt
Our reader tamberg pointed us to the ‘digg me’ Shirt, a very well documented Wearable Electronic Instructables project and just the right stuff to write about at the end of the week when we switch to an more relaxed mode.
The ‘digg me’ Shirt is a truly Wearable Electronic DIY project combining the usage and creativity [...]
The ultimate Wearable Electronic DIY Kit: LilyPad Arduino
Leah Buechley created in cooperation with Sparkfun the next generation of e-textile modules for the Wearable Electronic DIY enthusiasts: the LilyPad-Arduino set.
To introduce Leah Buechely might not be needed for our regular readers and everyone interested into Wearable Electronics just so much, Leah is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of [...]
ElekTex sensor for Designer, Students and DIY
Great news for all Wearable Electronic DIY enthusiasts, Students and their Professors and Fashion Designer.
Eleksen offers now next to the Evaluation Kit the ElekTex keypads and the electronics module for iPod control.
This is music in our ears. Finally, everyone interested in experiencing the often mentioned fabric keyboard can now use them to realize own [...]
WiFi Hotspot fashion accessory
Hotspot Bloom is a wearable flower that glows and changes color to indicate the signal strength of a nearby wireless network. The Hotspot Bloom allows you to detect WiFi hotspots around you in an eye catching way.
Karen Lee, a media artist investigating the convergence of wearable computing and wireless technologies, created the Hotspot Bloom during [...]
Fire Dress – DIY with Laura Cesari
We have seen the LED-Dress from Hussein Cahalayan but the $ 16.000,- might be a bit too much for some of us.
Do not fret, I can show you a way to have a similar ‘head turning’ outfit for your next summer-night party for just $ 70-80 with a bit of DIY and the fabulous instruction [...]
