Beating Heart Headband
January 06, 2012
The Beating Heart Headband uses a heartrate sensor and perfboard Arduino to flash a heart-shaped LED display to the rhythm of your heart. Full instructions on Make: Projects. Appears in MAKE Volume 29.
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Best of Make: Live Season 1
Here’s a clips reel Matt and I put together from the first season of Make: Live. What fun!
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iPhone Gloves
November 18, 2011
Use a bit of conductive thread to make your gloves work with your touch screen phone. Check out the step-by-step tutorial on Make: Projects, too.
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Kryptonite Candy
October 28, 2011
Turns out vitamin B2 is UV-fluorescent. Learn to make green glowing kryptonite candy in this episode of Becky’s Workshop. Check out the step-by-step tutorial on Make: Projects, too.

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NYC 2.0
October 19, 2011
Rick Karr stopped by to talk about art and technology in NYC on his local TV show. It’s the fifth episode of his series NYC 2.0 on NYCMedia (The official network of the city of New York), which airs at 8:30pm on Sundays on channel 25 (and also online shortly thereafter). On it I talk about my work while they make my workspace look nice. Also appearing in this episode are Andrew Salomone and some folks from Eyebeam and NYU.
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Suits for Wall Street
October 17, 2011
On Saturday, October 15 2011, the Proper Business Attire Working Group distributed free business suits to Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in Liberty Park in NYC’s financial district. I performed alterations on ill-fitting hems while hairs were trimmed and ties selected. We suited about 120 men and women.
We all look great in suits. To reporters, to workers, to skeptical tourists, we’ll look like people to listen to, or, at the very least, to hear out. Lazy journalists won’t be able to take the easy, dismissive out, and will have to actually listen to what we are saying. The conversation will grow out of the protester echo chamber and into the wider world, where it belongs. Suits are tactical camouflage in the warrens of Wall Street. And there are other advantages. Need a bathroom? Try wearing a suit. It’s easy. Want to walk past a police barricade? Put on a suit.
Photos by Max Cohn (with many more available).
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Inside the Polaroid Matrix

Matt Richardson and me in Polaroid Matrix Flipbook (& animated gif) form at World Maker Faire NY 2011 – thanks Sam Blanchard!
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Residency at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
October 02, 2011

I’ll be in Illinois Oct 2-6 for a residency at Unit One, a nontraditional academic program for Allen Hall residents at Urbana-Champaign. I’ll be giving a talk and run workshops on soft circuits, sewing, project documentation, and being awesome online. Check out the details and join me if you can!
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Secret Noodle Truck
September 30, 2011
Hidden on the Maker Faire grounds is the Secret Noodle Truck, full of delicious soups with excellent company. I had a great time there both eating and making this video about the project, organized by Mark Krawczuk. You might find the noodle truck at the next Lost Horizon Night Market.
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The Engadget Show
September 26, 2011


It was exciting to appear on The Engadget Show to discuss Maker Faire, DIY, and to show off my TV-B-Gone Jacket. The show archive is available online, and the segment starts at 24:50.
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Cosby Sweater
September 23, 2011
Andrew Salomone used my knitting machine, hacked by Ladyada, to knit this sweater depicting Bill Cosby. I did the sweater construction and video editing.

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Typecase Coffee Table
August 12, 2011
Meg Allan Cole welds a typecase coffee table and pays homage to Flashdance.

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LED Shoe Clips
August 05, 2011
This easy soft circuit project can get you started in wearable electronics and make your toes twinkle. Make them in any color you like with my LED Sewing Kit!
Complete step-by-step tutorial on Make: Projects.

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Resistor Necktie in the Sternlab Store
July 17, 2011
Soft champagne-colored silk men’s neckties bear the stripes of electronics resistors. Current stock available in my Etsy shop, but also available made-to-order in the Sternlab Store.
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Core77 Profile
July 14, 2011

Core77 published a two-part profile of me, highlighting quite accurately what it was like growing up a maker, and what it’s like to do what I do.

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Resistor Necktie
July 05, 2011
Construct a basic long necktie with stripes to represent your favorite value of resistor – formal wear inspired by the electronics bench.
Complete step-by-step tutorial on Make: Projects.
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Me in 3D
June 21, 2011

Jonathan Monaghan scanned me into the computer for inclusion in MakerBot’s “New York Notables” art show/party Thursday June 30.
Matt Richardson and I have been spending more time at MakerBot since we moved Make: Live there. He got starched and scanned as well:

The timelapse of printing my head was included in episode 16 of MakerBot’s “Robot Hospital” show.
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Nautical Lamp Revamp
June 17, 2011
Meg Allan Cole revamps an old lamp with a nautical theme, plus other beachy bathroom decor. Complete how-to on Make: Projects.
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TV-B-Gone Jacket
June 03, 2011
Whenever I bring my TV-B-Gone out to restaurants, I look suspicious pointing it around. So I embedded the device into a jacket and turned it into a wearable TV silencer. For the switch, I sewed paths of conductive thread that become bridged by the metal zipper pull when it passes by. At the restaurant or bar, all I have to do is unzip my jacket to turn off the TV(s).
More info in the CRAFT post and Make: Project.

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See Yourself Sensing
May 26, 2011

My Laptop Compubody Sock is included in the book See Yourself Sensing by Madeline Schwartzman:
Did you know it has been revealed that we can hear our skin, can see through our tongue, and can plug our nervous system directly into a computer? With prosthetics, robotics, cybernetics, virtual reality, transplants, and neuroscience altering the way we perceive and experience space, the body has re-emerged as an important architectural site. See Yourself Sensing endeavors to track the experiments of artists and designers on the intimate scale of the body, and to explore the influence of such experimentation on architecture, installation and new media.
Exploring this concept through the last 50 years of contemporary art and design, See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception examines the work of key practitioners in this field, from Rebecca Horn’s object based installations, Stelarc’s robotic body extensions to Carsten Höllers’ physically interactive sculptures. The works and artists illustrated throws into consideration how we see and sense the world around us through artistic interpretation. Whether extending these senses through projections, technological spectacles or even telepathy, our perceptual limitations are challenged and our senses realized visually. Analyzing the importance and influence of body-scaled sensory experiments, Schwartzman reveals the fascinating relationship between senses, body, art and perception.
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Make: Live at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011
May 25, 2011
Matt Richardson and I produced a special episode of Make: Live from the fairgrounds at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011.

Photo by @pdp7.

Photo by Blake Maloof.
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Animal Figurine Jewelry Rack
Meg Allan Cole builds a toy animal figurine jewelry rack.






















