Your Geami eco-packing material makes an upscale decorative wrap for my peanut butter jar flower vases!  

my home away from home and source of many inspirations! The Lending Library that tracks activity. View the complete flickr set! and they make mobil interactive dance environments!

  I went thru my studio today looking for unlikely items I might use as conductive switches. Which ones are conductive?  Which are not?   Metal Brads   Metal Paper Clips   Metal Thumbtacks   Metal Buttons

  Copper foil tape!  For your prototyping and paper computing needs. Fold the tape for the best results.   If the tape is cut and then stuck together the continuity is impeded by the adhesive backing.   Instead fold the tape to maintain the highest continuity (least resistance).   Plan your circuit so that you can best avoid cutting the […]

    Cleaning up I found a couple of Harry’s boards.   They are beautiful, to me.  

The easiest way to understand how the top thread and bobbin thread join to form a sewing machine stitch. Watch and learn! gif from wikimedia commons

When quilting or pinning together lots of fabric I find that my hands cramp from pulling and pushing so many pins. I tie a length of ribbon into the T-pins for easier removal. Just give a tug on the ribbon and Volia! the pins come free of the fabric.     The ribbon also helps me to see where the […]

  In March I’ll be in Doha, Qatar leading a workshop on eTextiles and wearable computing. Thanks to MaxBotix’s sponsorship – 25 international students will be working with MB1000 – EZ1 ultrasonic range finders.   This is the same sensor I used for the haptic coat for the blind, Bats Have Feelings Too (2008).  

  Quadrate LEDs and little tiny weeny crimping beads.