Beating Heart Headband

January 06, 2012

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Best of Make: Live Season 1

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Fanfare

December 23, 2011

Best gift ever. <3

Download on Soundcloud or get the sheet music PDF.

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Laser-Cut ASCII Heart Necklace <3

November 28, 2011

This geeky necklace depicts an ASCII heart, like you’d see in email or text messages: <3! The pieces are laser-cut in Sterling silver, then hand soldered to silver tubes that hang from the 20" curb chain. The necklace has a high-shine finish and is treated to reduce tarnishing. The pendant measures 1.5" square, and the two pieces dangle freely with a silver bead between them. This necklace makes a great gift for any special occasion, especially Valentine's Day. Made with love and lasers in NYC - buy now at the Sternlab store as well as Adafruit and Maker Shed.

The 5000W laser cutter that cut these pieces is the size of a living room.

Photo by Matt Richardson

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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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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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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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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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Chain Headpiece for Jennifer Behr

May 12, 2011

I constructed this gold-plated brass headpiece (aka “cage mask”) for Jennifer Behr‘s Autumn/Winter 2011 collection.

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Pocket Reflectors for Cycling

April 27, 2011

Learn to whip up some pants pocket reflectors to gain visibility for night cycling. Tutorial on Make: Projects.

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Video from The Daily – “Go, Go Gadgets”

March 17, 2011

The Daily stopped by to film some gadgets around the shop, here’s a video with me, Limor Fried, and Makerbot!

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at Martha Stewart

March 03, 2011

Yep, that’s me and Martha Stewart! Meg Allan Cole and I attended MSLO’s crafts episode with some other crafty residents of the blogosphere. The only other time I attended the show I was on crutches with the flu, so this time was markedly better. More pics on CRAFT.

Photo: David E. Steele/The Martha Stewart Show

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T-Shirt Refashion

February 14, 2011

Take a unisex tee from boxy to foxy!

• video on CRAFT
• tutorial on Make: Projects
• tutorial on Instructables

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ASCII Heart Necklaces Available for Valentine’s Day 2011

February 03, 2011

I made nine ASCII heart necklaces for Valentine’s Day 2011. Pick yours up at my Etsy shop.

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New Show! Make: Live

January 24, 2011

I’m really excited to announce a new show I’m co-hosting/producing called Make: Live. Matt Richardson and I bring MAKE Magazine alive with guests both in-studio and via Skype showing off all kinds of maker projects, show-and-tell style, streaming live on the web. The first episode is all about Arduino, with topical shows on soldering and bicycles to follow. It’ll be every other Wednesday night at 9pm EST. We’re broadcasting in HD from NYC (Sternlab HQ)!

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