DIANA ENG: Fashion Nerd

This week on Fairytale Fashion, we play with different conductive materials to create closed circuits using Drawdio. We add fabric to the equation and start thinking about creating open and closed circuits using the human body, and embroidered conductive thread. Answer the design question on FairytaleFashion.org

We are starting to work with electronics. What better way to explore the possibilities of what can be made with electronics than a trip to the MIT Media Lab. We got to visit the Karen Brennan at the Lifelong Kindergarten Group and Leah Buechley of High-Low Tech Group. That had some really neat projects like interactive wallpaper that controls electronics.

Our latest Fairytale Fashion video is up on inflatables.

Here we are making designs from viewer feedback.

Please join us and to help design magical fashion fit for a fairytale at the Fairytale Fashion Design Lab at Eyebeam Open Studios. There will be hands on circuits, accelerometers, and deployable structures to experiment with and tools to draw and design. We will use technology to turn make-believe into reality.

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Friday night at 10 pm I stopped by Yahoo Open Hackday to say hi to friends and go out for drinks. Open Hackday is a competition where hackers are given 24 hours to hack Yahoo applications. At 1 am, Alicia Gibb and I were at a bar and decided it would be fun to make a Del.icio.us Cake. A cake that displayed information based on information from the website Del.icio.us. From the bar we called Bill Ward and Hillary Mason (still at Yahoo Hackday) and they said that they were on board. In 10 hours we constructed a “Del.icio.us Cake filled with delicious sentiments”. Our cake shows current sentiment (positive, neutral, or negative) for a tag calculated from the content of recent delicious URLs for a tag.

We won best food/hardware hack and had some sweet sweet fun.

photos from Rasmus Lerdorf and Alicia Gibb