Color Changing Party Decorations with Paper Circuits
These colorful, illuminated party decorations make use of slow flashing RGB LED’s that change color all by themselves – no programming required. With the addition of a coin cell …
Author: Debra
e-Textiles / LED / Wearables
Fiber-Optic Dress
Despite the inactivity on this blog, I’ve continued to make projects. In an attempt to get a little bit up-to-date, here are some videos of a Fiber-Optic LED dress, controlled …
Pi on a Pi for Pi Day
Here’s a quick and dirty post for Pi Day which uses Python code by David Bau (http://davidbau.com/archives/2010/03/14/python_pipy_spigot.html) to compute pi to an arbitrary number of digits. The code implements a “spigot …
“Making” It
My LED Matrix Handbag project is featured in this month’s Make magazine (Vol. 55). There is also a link to the article online: http://makezine.com/projects/led-matrix-handbag/, with some extra detailed information about the IOT …
Apocalyptometer – an IoT Connected Poll Tracking Display
I think I’m not alone in feeling anxious about this election season. My favorite distraction has always been to throw myself into making, so I decided to channel my politically-driven anxiety into …
Arduino / e-Textiles / LED / Wearables
LED Matrix Handbag 2.0 – How To
My previous post describes a handbag containing a Twitter-connected LED matrix. The project was somewhat complicated to assemble – particularly the handbag sewing and construction. This post describes a simpler and more practical …
Circuits / e-Textiles / LED / Wearables
LED Matrix Handbag 2.0 – Coming Soon
I recently made a simpler and more attractive version of the LED Matrix Handbag to bring to the Bay Area Maker Faire. It is far easier to sew than the original, with more …
Circuits / e-Textiles / LED / Teensy
Tweet My Purse! (LED Matrix Handbag)
My goal with this project was to create a wearable electronics project that incorporated the electronics in an organic and subtle way. The end result is a handbag containing a programmable 10×6 LED …
Entering the IoT with CheerLights and Adafruit Huzzah
It’s hard to avoid the Internet of Things (IoT) these days. I thought I’d join the trend by starting simply. I was inspired by the CheerLights project, which uses a Twitter …
Arduino / CAD / Drawing Machines / NodeJS
EtchABot Part 2: Vector and Raster Images
This post describes how to draw vector and raster images on an Etch a Sketch with EtchABot. As described previously, EtchABot converts an Etch A Sketch to an versatile, easy-build CNC …