My current plan for world-domination through illuminated fashion: a programmable LED swimmable mermaid tail.Electronics and water don’t play well together. I am starting small, though I have to admit the more I play around with LED wearables, the grander...
Today I finished my first glow-fur project. It’s a glowing silver-and-white fur lined jacket, and the cuffs and collar fur glow with delicious rainbow colors and animations. I used Adafruit’s Gemma chip along with their neopixels and neopixel strips. The jacket...
I woke up in the middle of the night and heard a very odd sucking noise in the bathroom. Bleary-eyed, I stumbled in there and saw something purple and squishy slurping up out of the drain. I don’t know...
I’ve been modifying my light-up shoes and now they’re extra-awesome. I got some new velostat, which works a treat. The velostat is a pressure sensitive material which basically gets turned into a sensor, so the shoes light up when I step...
I have always wanted a pair of light-up shoes. All the kids are wearing them. They can stomp and their shoes light up with red or blue or sparkly and I’ve always been SO JEALOUS.Tonight, I finished my very...
I got home from a fire show the other night, exhausted from a very long day. As I was unloading the car, my body told me she was quite finished, and instead of carefully bending down to place the fire show...
It’s finished! It’s finally finally finished! Well, except for all the additional decorating and sequining and seaweed and such. But it’s finished enough for Prime Time. How to Make a Mermaid Tail Materials: 1 sheet of 3 mm dark...
I finished this peacock fairy costume yesterday. With the sunset getting later and later this time of year, there was plenty of time to head out to the arboretum for a photo shoot yesterday evening. I’m really pleased with...
My new embroidery machine arrived today!!! I am SO excited. It’s a Brother SE400 Embroidery and Sewing Machine. Originally I got the PE500, but the 500 does only embroidery, not regular sewing, and keeping that one would mean I would have...
Wow! So, I’ve been out of the country, fire dancing at a theme park in Japan, for most of the winter. I’m back now and I got an embroidery machine for Christmas, which I haven’t even taken out of the box...