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ghost dress grown from a vat of green tea
Treehugger recently reported on BioCouture, a fashion research project based at Central Saint Martin's College in London and led by Suzanna Lee, which seeks to grow textiles ...
bio-couture :: green tea leather
Organic Materials, Textiles
This is from quite some time ago, but a beautiful artwork from Philip Beesley called Hylozoic Soil which I saw at VIDA 11.0 last year. I just love the way he's used nitinol in the ...
hylozoic soil
Conductive Materials, Metal
Here's an introductory video about polymorph-
How to bend sheets of polymorph-
How to add colour to ...
a few videos about polymorph..
Polymers, Techniques
I keep thinking that even though we tend to use conductive fabric and other soft circuits materials mostly for wearables and such, there has to be much more to it than that. Ayman's drumsticks are a great of example of ...
conductive fabric drumsticks for capacitive devices
Conductive Materials, Techniques, Textiles
I've learned that there are 3 main challenges in working with soft circuits. The first one is to create circuitry with materials that are almost always completely exposed: a lot of thought goes into the layout of the ...
connecting hardware & softwear on soft(er) circuits
Materials 101, Techniques, Textiles
OSLOOM is is a project led by Margarita Benitez aimed at creating an open source electromechanical thread-controlled loom that will be computer controlled. It will include basic software allowing anyone to simply weave a ...
A great new service has just been launched called BioTorrents, which allows scientists to rapidly share their results, datasets, and software using the popular BitTorrent file sharing technology. Here's the abstract from ...
BioTorrents
Tools
D-Shape, whose 3d printers are capable of fabricating amazing mega scale free-form building size models, are now working with the European Space Agency to create a 3d printer that can extrude within the moon's vacuum ...
3d printing with lunar dust
Ceramics & Glass
Another great initiative from Stanford, this time involving the novel usage of accelerometers.
Quake-Catcher Network is a collaborative initiative for developing the world's largest, low-cost strong-motion seismic network ...
quake-catcher network
Conductive Materials
The worldwide first EAP propelled airship was made at Empa in collaboration with aeroix GmbH and the Technical University of Berlin. This lighter-than-air vehicle with 8 m in length consists of a slightly pressurized ...
featured video :: EAP-Blimp
Polymers
Tito Ingenieri, from Quilmes - Argentina, built his house out of six million empty bottles over a period of 19 years. His main motivation was the accessibility of scrap materials: "I didn't have any other way to make my ...
a house made of 6 million empty bottles & other eco ideas
Ceramics & Glass
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EL wire (electroluminescent wire) glows when an alternating current is passed through it. Unlike LED strips, EL wire is not a series of light points, but an unbroken line of visible ...
EL wire
Conductive Materials, Materials 101, Techniques
