Lilypad Sparkfun Kit

LilyPad es una tecnología portátil desarrollada por la Dra. Leah Buechley y diseñada cooperativamente por la Dra. Buechley y SparkFun. Cada componente de LilyPad se construyó de manera creativa con grandes pestañas de costura para permitir la costura de la ropa. Varias tarjetas de entrada, salida, alimentación y sensores están disponibles. ¡Incluso son lavables!

El kit LilyPad Sewable Electronics permite explorar el maravilloso mundo de la costura electrónica (e-cosido) y los textiles electrónicos a través de una serie de proyectos introductorios que utilizan el sistema LilyPad. Aprenderás a coser circuitos básicos para iluminar los LED, controlarlos con botones e interruptores e incluso experimentar con un circuito LilyMini preprogramado que reacciona a los niveles de luz ambiental. Además de los LED LilyPad y los titulares de la batería, el kit viene con dos placas LilyPad ProtoSnap que te permiten explorar el circuito antes de coser las piezas en un proyecto.

La Guía del kit de electrónica de costura de LilyPad a todo color (incluida) contiene instrucciones paso a paso para usar las piezas de LilyPad para crear cuatro proyectos completos de circuito de costura con hilo conductor. Los diagramas fáciles de seguir y los consejos para la resolución de problemas hacen que este sea un excelente recurso introductorio para crafters y creatives.



Nota: Una parte de esta venta se le devuelve al Dr. Buechley para continuar el desarrollo y la educación en e-textiles.

"Galaxy Dress"

The Galaxy Dress fue la pieza central de la exposición "Avance rápido: Inventar el futuro" en el Museo de Ciencia e Industria de Chicago. El museo celebró sus 75 años en el 2006 y para conmemorarlo incluyó el Galaxy Dress en su colección permanente. GalaxyDress proporciona un efecto espectacular e hipnótico que se borda con 24000 píxeles a todo color, es la pantalla portátil más grande del mundo.

GalaxyDress utiliza los píxeles más pequeños a todo color que son planos como el papel y miden solo 2 por 2 mm. Los circuitos son extrafinos, flexibles y están bordados a mano en una capa de seda de forma que se estira, por lo que la tela luminosa se puede mover como la tela normal con ligereza y fluidez. Para difundir la luz, hay 4 capas de gasa de seda que también se mueven maravillosamente bien.

La electrónica extra fina permite que el diseño siga la forma del cuerpo de cerca como con la tela normal. GalaxyDress está diseñado para funcionar con varias baterías de iPOD para que el usuario puede caminar. GalaxyDress no se sobrecalienta y consume muy poca electricidad gracias a la tecnología utilizada.

GalaxyDress es liviano, la parte más pesada no es la tecnología, sino la crinolina de organza de seda plisada de 40 capas que ensancha la falda. Las áreas sin luces están decoradas con más de 4000 cristales Swarovski aplicados a mano que hacen un degradado de cristal claro a brillante rosa, por lo que el vestido se ve bien también cuando está apagado.

Fuente: www.cutecircuit.com

Clara Daguin, alta moda, futurismo y poesía

Con una licenciatura en diseño gráfico por la Universidad de San Francisco y una en diseño de moda de Arts Décoratifs de París la diseñadora francoamericana Clara Daguin mezcla la alta tecnología y la moda de una manera muy personal para componer una obra futurista pero poética. Su singular producción le ha abierto las puertas a marcas como Chalayan, Stella MacCartney y Maison Margiela, con quienes colabora regularmente.


Su chaqueta bordada con circuitos e hilos luminiscentes la convirtieron en una de las estrellas en el Festival Hyères 2016.

  

Más info en: http://claradaguin.com/

Zapatos Led de fiesta por Angela Sheehan

Angela ses directora de productos educativos y la especialista en educación en textiles electrónicos de Sparkfun Electronics, donde lidera el desarrollo de la línea de productos educativos. Es artista y educadora apasionada por la electrónica artesanal, el vestuario y la combinación de artes y tecnología. Ha trabajado con e-textiles y wereables desde 2005 y ha ayudado a facilitar más de 90 talleres de e-textiles y e-craft, incluyendo sesiones en Fashion Institute of Technology, Sparkfun National Tour, WEAR (smart fabrics), USACEF, NESTA, E21 Conference e ISTE.

Uno de sus últimos proyectos son los zapatos con led para fiesta. Según comenta en su página web, creó estos divertidos zapatos controlados por bluetooth para la fiesta anual de Sparkfun. Para el evento usó un prototipo de tacones que puede controlar de forma inalámbrica a través de un brazalete por bluetooth. Este es un proyecto con una estructura similar que ya había usado en un disfraz de Halloween (que todavía está en desarrollo) y que explora conectar piezas de vestuario de forma inalámbrica utilizando radios RFM69. La pulsera conecta un conector BLE Adafruit y utiliza el selector de color para enviar valores RGB a la pulsera. El brazalete pasa los datos a través del módulo de radio RFM69 a los zapatos para sincronizarlos.

Por el momento, la aplicación no es compatible con múltiples conexiones emparejadas y sólo muestra el color elegido en el brazalete y los zapatos, pero según cuenta Angela, está pleanadno agregar un sistema de menú de animaciones elegido a través de un interruptor de navegación en el brazalete para elegir un modo y pasar configuraciones de color para mostrar en los zapatos.

Hardware usado en la pulsera:

•         SparkFun Pro Micro 3.3V
•         Transceptor inalámbrico RFM69-915MHZ
•         Un adafruit Flora Bluefruit Module
•         Anillo Adafruit NeoPixel
•         Interruptor de navegación
•         Batería de polímero de litio

Hadrware usado en los zapatos:

•         Qduino Mini
•         Trasnceptor inalámbrico RFM69-915MHZ
•         Panel Adafruit Flexible 8x8 RGB
•           Batería de polímero de litio

      Fuente: https://www.gellacraft.com/

Romina Ressia, una fotógrafa pictórica contemporánea

Nacida en 1981 en Argentina, en un pequeño pueblo cerca de Buenos Aires. Su pasión por el arte comenzó a temprana edad, pero no fue sino hasta finales de sus veinte años, después de graduarse en economía, que decidió dedicar su vida a la fotografía.

Estudio fotografía de moda, dirección de arte y paisajes en diferentes lugares, incluido el Instituto del prestigioso Teatro Colón. Y su influencia proviene principalmente de pinturas clásicas.

Romina comenzó en la fotografía de moda, pero se fue trasladando gradualmente a Bellas Artes, aventurándose más allá de la fotografía, en las técnicas mixtas. Sus obras están representadas por galerías en el Reino Unido, Suiza y Bélgica, y se han exhibido en las principales ciudades como Nueva York, Milán, Londres, Zurchi, PArís, Bruselas y Buenos Aires, entre muchos otros.

Dueña de un estilo pictórico propio, es muy conocida por sus anacronismos y el uso del absurdo y la ironía para abordar cuestiones modernas. El intento de dar un aire fresco al estilo clásico es otra característica importante en su trabajo.

Fuente: http://www.rominaressiaph.com

Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design by Anthony Dunne

Boook description by Amazon:
As our everyday social and cultural experiences are increasingly mediated by electronic products--from "intelligent" toasters to iPods--it is the design of these products that shapes our experience of the "electrosphere" in which we live. Designers of electronic products, writes Anthony Dunne in Hertzian Tales, must begin to think more broadly about the aesthetic role of electronic products in everyday life. Industrial design has the potential to enrich our daily lives--to improve the quality of our relationship to the artificial environment of technology, and even, argues Dunne, to be subverted for socially beneficial ends.The cultural speculations and conceptual design proposals in Hertzian Tales are not utopian visions or blueprints; instead, they embody a critique of present-day practices, "mixing criticism with optimism." Six essays explore design approaches for developing the aesthetic potential of electronic products outside a commercial context--considering such topics as the post-optimal object and the aesthetics of user-unfriendliness--and five proposals offer commentary in the form of objects, videos, and images. These include "Electroclimates," animations on an LCD screen that register changes in radio frequency; "When Objects Dream...," consumer products that "dream" in electromagnetic waves; "Thief of Affection," which steals radio signals from cardiac pacemakers; "Tuneable Cities," which uses the car as it drives through overlapping radio environments as an interface of hertzian and physical space; and the "Faraday Chair: Negative Radio," enclosed in a transparent but radio-opaque shield.

Jumping Jumper by "The Intern" & Mieux for aniomagic

"The Intern", and Mieux collaborate on a motion sensitive skirt that sparkles when the wearer makes waves. Contains Sparkle, lightboards, acceleromenter, and a whole lot of conductive thread...demonstrates a single Sparkle powering 40 lightboards! Uses 2 AAA batteries.

Soft Circuits: a workshop facilitator's guide by Emily Lovett

Emily Lovett is a graduate student in the High-Low Tech research group at the MIT Media Lab, interested in research at the intersection of education and craft/technology. And she have write her first book, "Getting Hands-On with Soft Circuits" is a workshop guide for educators interested in sharing the expressive and computationally engaging field of e-textiles with their middle and high school students.

Free download here: http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=1283

Marc Jacobs QR code dress by THORUNN ARNADOTTIR

QR U? - dress
The digital media has made self promotion easier and the route to fame has become more accessible. We have become our own paparazzi's and media.

The "super-self-promotional-dress" is designed for a pop star, Kali in Steed Lord. (www.steedlord.com)

The dress allows her to use the promotional ability of the internet to the maximum, while appearing in public offline. The dress is composed of different QR codes that link to different promotional material online that can be viewed instantly on her fans mobile phones.
Supported by Swarovski.

Photography: Eugenia Walberg
2011

Spanish Craft Revolution

El objetivo de SpanishCraftRevolution es dar a conocer el handmade español dentro y fuera de España.Los miembros son artistas que viven y crean en España o Españoles que viven en el extranjero, con un alto nivel de creatividad. El próximo viernes, 10 de Junio 2011, tendrá lugar la Etsy Craft Party, un evento de carácter mundial al cual se puede sumar quien quiera, simplemente tienes que informarte de dónde se realiza la Craft Party más cercana o crear una tú mismo! Más info en: http://www.etsy.com/teams/8703/spanishcraftrevolution http://spanishcraftrevolution.blogspot.com/2011/06/etsy-craft-party-in-spain.html Contacto: spanishcraftrevolution@gmail.com

Schemer by Aniomagic

Schemer is a small button to make things twinkle, shake, and play music.

You program it directly from a web browser by holding it in front of a computer screen.
No wires, and no software to install. It's really easy.

- Example programs

- Graphical programming

- Writing programs
- All Schemer procedures
- Hardware
- Example projects

Go to http://www.aniomagic.com/schemer/?hl=en#

And visualize this:

Inauguración Cafe-Costura Madrid

Hoy se inaugura este nuevo espacio en Madrid que promete ser punto de encuentro de la comunidad DIY en la capital. Su fórmula, 1 hora de clases de costura a máquina +  1 café x 7 euros!!!

Allí estaremos hoy para celebrar!

Sparkfun Lilypad Workshop at Maker Faire

 

This weekend at the Maker Faire, Sparkfun will be holding an introductory Lilypad and etextile workshop. The hands-on workshop will give you the technical skills and know-how to add LED lights to your crafty projects. The class uses the Lilypad electronic components.
The course will cost you $30 and all the proceeds from all of SparkFun’s workshops this year are going to be donated to The San Francisco Food Bank as well as Internet Archive/Way Back Machine.

Moon Berlin collection

By The New York Times:

The Moon Berlin garments feature tiny LED, or light-emitting diode, bulbs. They are attached to an electrical circuit imprinted on a soft, rubbery material that can be added directly to fabric or placed between a garment’s main material and its lining. While the arrangement may sound cumbersome, the circuits are so flexible they can even be attached to silk, chiffon and satin, the engineers say.

One thin circuit wire leads to a credit card-size battery that is three millimeters, or one-tenth of an inch, thick, rechargeable and low-energy. It is concealed in a fabric pocket somewhere on the garment and can power the lights for 8 to 10 hours.
Some lights even will sparkle, responding to a sensor that detects the wearer’s movement, and others dim or brighten according to levels of light. Oh, and the garments are washable.
The initial 23-piece collection, which can be ordered from Moon Berlin online, ranges from a little black dress with lights twinkling through a cowl draped at the back to a sleeveless white silk shirt featuring the lighting circuit as though it were a graphic print. Prices are €2,000, or $2,750, for a gown; €1,000 for a silk shirt.

More info in:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/fashion/03iht-rmoon03.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&src=tptw&adxnnlx=1300768149-4nKkPMNeWgnfzNcIJdgc2w

http://www.moon-berlin.com/

Wearable Technologies: Cross-disciplinary Ventures

During the month of May 2011, -empyre soft-skinned space will be featuring a discussion of wearable technologies, means through which technology augments or enables the body in interacting with the surrounding environment. The integration of wearables that augment the body with technological capabilities permeate our diverse worlds from entertainment to the military. During a recent episode of American Idol, singer Katy Perry wore a white body suit that flickered with pink LED lights to the beat of a song with Kanye West. Just a few days ago, during a US military secret mission to hunt down Osama Bin Laden, elite Navy Blue Seals wore special goggles that allowed them to see in low light conditions and helmets installed with video cams that beamed the capture and killing of Bin Laden in real time for the President of the United States and other onlookers in the White House Situation Room.

In the realms of art and technology, wearable technologies have proliferated while linking the areas of art, design, science and engineering. In the art and technology DIY world, the arduino and lilypad platforms and open source software have made these technologies more accessible. Embedded accelerometers within ubiquitous communication and computer hardware such as the i-phone, i-pod touch, and the i-pad among others have simplified the relationship between code and interactivity.

Some of the questions to be considered over the course of the next four weeks will include: How do wearable technologies enhance the body’s capabilities to interface with the environment as transmitters, receivers, enablers of data-in-the-world. How do the technologies of material protect the body upon harmful impact (fire, heat, microbes) or enhance more pleasurable sensation? What is the role of risk in relation to the failure of design or delivery? What are the relationships between the practical aspects of use and the aesthetic concerns of design? How do we understand wearable technology in relation to the excesses of commodified culture?

Wearable Technologies: Cross-disciplinary Ventures with Janis Jefferies (UK), Valérie Lamontagne (CA), Ashley Ferro-Murray (US), Sabine Seymour (US), Susan Elizabeth Ryan (US), Danielle Wilde (AU/FR), Sarah Kettley (UK), Lucy Dunne (US) :: Moderated by Renate Ferro (US) and Tim Murray (US).

More info:
http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/

Resistulator

A resistor calculator. It calculates the value of a resistor from the sequence of colored bands painted on the resistor. It also displays the corresponding color sequence when a resistor value is entered.

Instructions:
To enter a color sequence, click each colored band to cycle through the possible colors. You can look up a color sequence by entering the numeric resistor value from the dropdown menus when the widget is in expanded form. The widget is resized by clicking anywhere on the green background.

Download Details

• Company: Nicholas Zambetti
• Version: 1.1
• Post Date: April 17, 2006
• License: Freeware
• File Size: 224K
• URL Type: Download
• Download ID: 9471

System Requirements

• Mac OS X 10.4 or later

Download in: 
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/calculate_convert/resistulator.html

e-textile and wereable computing show at Market Faire Bay Area

On Saturday 21 May 2011 at 3:00PM fashion designers and engineers, young and old, beginners and the skilled will join forces to present a Maker Fair original: An eTextile, smart clothing and wearable computing Showcase!

date: Saturday 21 May 2011
time: 3:00PM
location: Arc Attack Stage, Fiesta Hall, Maker Faire, San Mateo
producer: Lynne Bruning

DESIGNERS


Andy – Symphonic Ballet
Eric – HeartSpark
Grace – TBA
Jenny – LED Beaded Bangles
Josh – Map Bag
Joyce – undisclosed as of yet…..
Liz – TBA
Randy – The Clap Off BraSensoree – InflataCorset
Shannon – Candle Light Dress
Syuzi Pakhchyan – Quorra Costume

Mistress of Ceremony: TBA

Designs will be on display at the eTextile Lounge: Booth #300 in the East Lobby of the Fiesta Hall. Designers will be available for interviews immediately after the Showcase in the eTextile Lounge Booth #300 in the East Lobby of the Fiesta Hall.

Meredith will be displaying her projects at Maker Faire Bay Area, May 21 & 22. There you can meet her, and her razor sharp wit!

II Jornadas sobre blogs de moda en el Museo del Traje

Segundo foro en torno a la comunicación de moda on line y a las redes sociales. Estas jornadas son un espacio de encuentro donde los participantes pueden actualizar y compartir experiencias vinculadas al mundo de las tendencias en la “blogosfera”.
Participación gratuita previa inscripción entre el 3 y 24 de mayo. El formulario de inscripción estará disponible en la web del Museo a partir del día 3 de mayo. La selección de los participantes se realizará a base a su interés y vinculación con la temática del curso.

Dirección: María Giraldo Bombín y Patricia González Aldea
Duración: 10 horas
Fechas: 10 y 11 de junio
Inscripciones e información:
Teléfono: 91 5504708 (de lunes a viernes,
de 10.00 a 14.00 horas)
Correo electrónico: cursos.mt@mcu.es


Agradecimientos: Arturo Elena
Patrocinan: BuyVIP, TRUCCO, L’Oréal

The eTextile Lounge : a global hackerspace by Lynne Bruning

Bio for body pixel:

Lynne Bruning is an award winning wearable artist, eTextile innovator and, as she likes to title herself, ‘a textile enchantress, lover of black sand beaches, tangerine bikinis and fast connections.’ She holds an Bachelor of Arts in neurophysiology and Masters in architecture. Her artworks have been published in numerous fashion magazines, web zines and all over the blogosphere. She lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Lynne is pretty active member and proponent of DIY scene in eTextiles and wearable tech fields. 

Last 22 march of 2011 she created "The eTextile Loungue" a meeting point via ustream for fashion wereable and computing innovators, trend setters and wide-eyed novies, like she said.. A meet between colleagues to show their creations, blogs, ideas and dreams...

See more about this fantastic loungue in:
http://www.lbruning.com/etextiles/global-etextile-hackerspace-tuesday-nights-on-ustream/

And you will can download a pdf of the week whit all the information such a webs, blogs, artists and local meeting points.

Thanks Lynne for this great idea and for make this space possible ;)

Photo by Lynne Bruning

Time Traveling the Techno-Handmade Revolution by Sally Fort

Sally Fort Craft & Design Curator
 
Lly Sally Fort is a craft & design curator, cultural participation and learning consultant, and textiles designer-maker. In 2005 Sally received funding to research the DIY / counter-culture craft scene in the US and UK. This led to the 2009 project UK DIY, including the UK’s first exhibition of counter-culture crafts, accompanied by events and projects across the North West. With a special interest in relationships between craft and web 2.0, Sally is currently developing a crowd-sourced exhibition marrying code and textiles.
When she’s not doing that, Sally is usually helping galleries, museums, universities and schools work more effectively with their communities through participatory arts and cultural activity.

You can find her at www.sallyfort.com or @sallyent on twitter

Is one of the speakers in this years “Post Craft” session at the FutureEveything conference.

Read the article in:
http://futureeverything.org/articles/time-traveling-the-techno-handmade-revolution-by-sally-fort/