Comments on: Emission Spectra Scarves

By: MrsB

MrsB — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 04:08:18 +0000

That is all kinds of awesome. Hubby just went mad with geek.

By: Becky Stern

Becky Stern — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:35:10 +0000

Yep! It would fall into the “crazy” category in the way I have them listed on Makers Market.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:45:45 +0000

Would you be willing to make a manganese scarf? (e.g. is the line-count excessive?) I'd like to get one if you would make it.

neat idea!

By: Becky Stern

Becky Stern — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:33:45 +0000

Don’t know why you’re apologizing… She runs Adafruit Industries, an electronics kit company. Head on over there if you want to say hi, the link is in the post.

By: yberry

yberry — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:52:20 +0000

I'm sorry. I was busy marveling at the utter coolness of this idea, and wondering if Zn would be appropriate for my husband, and then I scrolled past your model's name, and fell out of my chair. I went to camp with Limor in Israel, ages ago. We were the only geeks there.

Going to have a look at zinc now, while still scratching my head. Double cool.

By: Becky Stern

Becky Stern — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:42:34 +0000

Hah! Too much.

By: Gaavak

Gaavak — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:05:43 +0000

How much for molybdenum/zirconium?

By: rodney

rodney — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:50:03 +0000

make the scarfs, and I’ll buy a couple – winter is still several months off for those of us int he Southern Hemisphere.

By: Darla

Darla — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:48:10 +0000

Becky I saw a craftster post about this a while ago – someone made a specta scarf for a science swap. I did a podcast episode on how cool it would be to do a quilt of the spectrum. I was inspired by the scarf I saw on craftster and although my spectrum scarf is just an idea and not a product, I am inspired you are doing this as a business. Your process of using the knitting machine is making a really quality product. Do you plot out on graph paper each row? You say you count all the pixels? wow! Very good job Becky. It’s nice to see cool minds think alike: http://scientificquilter.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/2-2-sq-podcast-episode-4-quilting-the-spectrum/

By: Becky Stern

Becky Stern — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:25:09 +0000

@Geoffrey: I take a look at the spectrum image from the chemistry site I linked to in the post, and one pixel row = one knitted row in the scarf. The gauge is quite small since I do it on my knitting machine, but you could probably replicate it on small needles, about a US size 3 or so maybe.