Inside the Polaroid Matrix

October 17, 2011

Matt Richardson and me in Polaroid Matrix Flipbook (& animated gif) form at World Maker Faire NY 2011 – thanks Sam Blanchard!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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