When You Want Your Wearable Tech Green #WearableWednesday #wearabletech #tech #environment

Since recently discovering that fashion is one of the top polluting industries, I’ve been curious about the implications of the combination of wearables and tech. Let’s face it, technology is useful, yet it poses its own life cycle issues. That’s why I was quite excited to find a recent post by Wareable on the question of eco friendly wearable tech. Here’s some of their takeaways dealing with trackers/fitness bands:

According to CSRHub (which reports on Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability):

Apple – 62 overall/71 environment

Fitbit – 47 overall/42 environment

Garmin- 48 overall/45 for environment

Keep in mind that some companies are too new to be included in CSRHub, however, it’s clear there’s a lot more work that needs to be done on all counts for wearables. On the bright side, there is a company utilizing greener practices—Bellabeat. Check out leaf Nature, for example, using different wood selections.

There’s a lot more to tackle, from the making of computer chips and bands/jewelry findings, to where the product ends up when the consumer is finished. I encourage you to read Wareable’s post to discover more of what is being done. The point is, it’s important to raise these questions because companies need to strive for a triple bottom line of people, planet and profit. The world is already being transformed with green practices in architecture and transportation sharing, so it seems that our tech should follow.

One of the reasons I value DIY is because the process of making creates awareness of what is involved in a process, whether it be building circuits, knitting a sweater, repairing an engine or baking bread. You notice the details of gathering materials, finding the right tools and allocating your time. You recognize the value in using what is on hand, where there is waste or toxins, the need to save time, the importance of testing and the desire for improvement. In the end you are aware of the longevity of your project and think carefully of how you will part with it. It’s a great way to learn about connection to the environment. When wearable tech companies really explore the equation, they will find ways to be green. In the meantime, we will either need to develop our own DIY wearable tech, or create the demand for the green market. One small thing you can do is create wearable tech that is actually helpful, like a Solar Boost Bag. Transform a bag or purse with a solar panel and create a charging station for your cell phone. Learn first hand what it means to use clean energy, while also appreciating the elements that go into the process.

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Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!

Check out the winners of Fashion Fusion’s smart fashion challenge #WearableWednesday

Thanks to Eva for sharing. Check out more here.

Yesterday, our 3-month challenge ended with an outstanding final. All twelve teams of finalists were on stage presenting their smart fashion projects in public. The jury was impressed with the progress achieved in the Fashion Fusion Lab, and full of praise for all the teams. Nevertheless, three winners had to be appointed that evening. Although the jury experts came from very different backgrounds, and despite the difficulty of comparing such varied concepts, their decision was unanimous.

Here they are, the winners of our Fashion Fusion Challenge 2016/17:

1st place: Trainwear

With their modular software system and specially developed sensors, Gernot Bahle, Bo Zhou and Lorenzo Fürg, in collaboration with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, have created the requirements for a “virtual personal trainer” which monitors, accompanies and supports the individual wearer while training.

Read more.

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Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!

Check out the winners of Fashion Fusion’s smart fashion challenge #WearableWednesday

Thanks to Eva for sharing. Check out more here.

Yesterday, our 3-month challenge ended with an outstanding final. All twelve teams of finalists were on stage presenting their smart fashion projects in public. The jury was impressed with the progress achieved in the Fashion Fusion Lab, and full of praise for all the teams. Nevertheless, three winners had to be appointed that evening. Although the jury experts came from very different backgrounds, and despite the difficulty of comparing such varied concepts, their decision was unanimous.

Here they are, the winners of our Fashion Fusion Challenge 2016/17:

1st place: Trainwear

With their modular software system and specially developed sensors, Gernot Bahle, Bo Zhou and Lorenzo Fürg, in collaboration with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, have created the requirements for a “virtual personal trainer” which monitors, accompanies and supports the individual wearer while training.

Read more.

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Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!

BMP Props Takes a Bite, Makes Street Sharks Ripster Costume

Bryan Doell, a.k.a. BMP Props and Costumes, is no stranger to making massive costumes. For MegaCon 2016, he became X-Men’s Juggernaut. He has similarly gargantuan plans for MegaCon 2017 — he’s taking a Street Sharks ensemble to the Florida convention this year. I confess I had to look into Street Sharks. For anyone else who’s not familiar with the property, it’s an animated series that aired in the mid ’90s and featured half-man/half-shark crime fighters. Bryan’s dressing as Ripster, the leader of the Street Sharks.

Now that we’re all in the know, take a moment to appreciate the progress Bryan has made so far. He has the shell of the shark portion of the body done. It’s in two sections, the abs/torso and the head and arms. It all sits on a frame, and Bryan says it’s quite comfortable and light to wear. He’s going to be casting the hands next and eventually adding puppetry to give Ripster moving eyes.

Watch a movement test of the costume and see how flexible the suit is in this Facebook video.

via The RPF on Facebook

BMP Props Takes a Bite, Makes Street Sharks Ripster Costume

Bryan Doell, a.k.a. BMP Props and Costumes, is no stranger to making massive costumes. For MegaCon 2016, he became X-Men’s Juggernaut. He has similarly gargantuan plans for MegaCon 2017 — he’s taking a Street Sharks ensemble to the Florida convention this year. I confess I had to look into Street Sharks. For anyone else who’s not familiar with the property, it’s an animated series that aired in the mid ’90s and featured half-man/half-shark crime fighters. Bryan’s dressing as Ripster, the leader of the Street Sharks.

Now that we’re all in the know, take a moment to appreciate the progress Bryan has made so far. He has the shell of the shark portion of the body done. It’s in two sections, the abs/torso and the head and arms. It all sits on a frame, and Bryan says it’s quite comfortable and light to wear. He’s going to be casting the hands next and eventually adding puppetry to give Ripster moving eyes.

Watch a movement test of the costume and see how flexible the suit is in this Facebook video.

via The RPF on Facebook

Deep Future Features Star Charts Drawn by Robots for the Next 100,000 Years #ArtTuesday

From Tellart via The Creators Project:

Imagine standing on the North Pole looking up at the night sky on New Year’s Eve this year, and every ten thousand years, for the next hundred thousand years. The celestial sphere changes – constellations of stars distort. Inspired by this effect and our ongoing futures foresight research, we created Deep Future. Deep Future was an installation at Droog Amsterdam that celebrated the New Year and Tellart’s 15th anniversary, mixing traditional analog crafts with a drawing robot and data visualizations of the celestial sphere through the next hundred thousand years. Our custom beeswax-printing robot drew 10,000 year intervals of future star charts on cotton, which was then dyed using traditional indigo dye process with the help of Blueprint Amsterdam. These scarves were sold onsite at Droog to benefit Voedselbank, Amsterdam’s food bank, helping those less fortunate receive a holiday meal.

Read more on Tellart.com and see more from Tellart on vimeo

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Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!

Deep Future Features Star Charts Drawn by Robots for the Next 100,000 Years #ArtTuesday

From Tellart via The Creators Project:

Imagine standing on the North Pole looking up at the night sky on New Year’s Eve this year, and every ten thousand years, for the next hundred thousand years. The celestial sphere changes – constellations of stars distort. Inspired by this effect and our ongoing futures foresight research, we created Deep Future. Deep Future was an installation at Droog Amsterdam that celebrated the New Year and Tellart’s 15th anniversary, mixing traditional analog crafts with a drawing robot and data visualizations of the celestial sphere through the next hundred thousand years. Our custom beeswax-printing robot drew 10,000 year intervals of future star charts on cotton, which was then dyed using traditional indigo dye process with the help of Blueprint Amsterdam. These scarves were sold onsite at Droog to benefit Voedselbank, Amsterdam’s food bank, helping those less fortunate receive a holiday meal.

Read more on Tellart.com and see more from Tellart on vimeo

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Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!

Deep Future Features Star Charts Drawn by Robots for the Next 100,000 Years #ArtTuesday

From Tellart via The Creators Project:

Imagine standing on the North Pole looking up at the night sky on New Year’s Eve this year, and every ten thousand years, for the next hundred thousand years. The celestial sphere changes – constellations of stars distort. Inspired by this effect and our ongoing futures foresight research, we created Deep Future. Deep Future was an installation at Droog Amsterdam that celebrated the New Year and Tellart’s 15th anniversary, mixing traditional analog crafts with a drawing robot and data visualizations of the celestial sphere through the next hundred thousand years. Our custom beeswax-printing robot drew 10,000 year intervals of future star charts on cotton, which was then dyed using traditional indigo dye process with the help of Blueprint Amsterdam. These scarves were sold onsite at Droog to benefit Voedselbank, Amsterdam’s food bank, helping those less fortunate receive a holiday meal.

Read more on Tellart.com and see more from Tellart on vimeo

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Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!

Drawing the Fragile Vulnerability of Transitioning Bodies #ArtTuesday

via HYPERALLERGIC

Roey Heifetz moved from Israel to Berlin as a young male artist in search of a future and returned five years later as a mature female artist. This transition in gender — but implicitly also in geography — is at the center of her exhibition, Victoria, curated by Timna Seligman. The show, currently on view at the Ticho House in Jerusalem as part of the Sixth Biennale for Drawing in Israel, is comprised of a series of 12 large drawings that enclose the small exhibition space on all sides.

Heifetz draws aging transgender people. Her portraits are affected and influenced by human figures she has met in Berlin as well as by her own, which is currently undergoing transformation. The figures are standing or lying down in stretched-out poses, reminiscent of dancers, and they look straight at the viewer. Sometimes their bodies bend, double, or swivel. Their hairstyles are blown out and meticulously finished, and in some drawings, they seem like genies let out of a bottle.

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Some of the Coolest Bookstores to Visit Around the World #ArtTuesday

via My Modern Met

Many things may vary from city to city, but one thing is for sure: you can always count on bookshops to be treasure troves of knowledge and entertainment. Cherished both as a place to buy reading materials and as a comfy, calm, and coffee-friendly space to relax, the bookstore has become an integral part of modern life. It’s no wonder architects have paid close attention to the potential of these scholastic sanctuaries. Some of the best bookstores offer unique experiences, just upon entering.

Though the sites carry like merchandise, their styles and histories are drastically dissimilar. Some of the shops have taken up residence in refurbished spaces like a spectacular old theatre and even a 13th century Gothic church. Other stores’ designs are completely contemporary, featuring futuristic architecture, bright color palettes, and creative, built-in lounges. Still, some simply put a creative twist on the classic and cozy bookshop aesthetic.

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Cosplay Interview with Egg Sisters Cosplay

Garuda from Final Fantasy XIV, photo by Cloud Foto

The work of Egg Sisters Cosplay, the Egg Sisters being Dana and Courtney, has come across my desk multiple times. They’re responsible for a massive Overwatch Reinhardt costume and also costumes that include materials such as LEDs, body makeup, and prosthetics. In short, their skills are numerous and diverse. I asked them about materials they favor for armor builds, their tips for applying body paint, and more.

Adafruit: I read you both grew up enjoying conventions and cosplay. How long have each of you been cosplaying and what inspired you to start?

Egg Sisters Cosplay: I think we started cosplay like a lot of kids did. We grew up watching anime and playing video games. We began going to conventions and would attempt group cosplay of our favorite shows, games, or even bands. When we just started, our costumes were mostly modified versions of things we purchased. We didn’t really get serious about it until Final Fantasy FanFest in 2014. Our Garuda Costume was the beginning of Egg Sisters for sure!

Sith Juggernaut from Star Wars: The Old Republic, photo by Cloud Foto

Adafruit: Do you both have similar skill sets or do you have strengths that complement each other – and if so, what are they?

Egg Sisters Cosplay: We certainly have our own skills sets although we end up overlapping our work often. Dana started honing her skills in fine art from an early age. She excels in sculpting, painting, choosing materials and overall quality control. Her artist eye very much guides the aesthetic of every costume.

Courtney handles a lot of the technical side of the projects such as, drawing templates, lighting, electronics and sewing.

In the end we both dabble in all of these skill sets, in addition to all the grunt work such as sanding, mold making, gluing, cutting, painting etc.

When one of us hits a wall the other is always there to pick us up. It is so easy to get frustrated with a project. We are good at motivating each other and problem solving together.

Undead Rogue from World of Warcraft, photo by Egg Sisters Cosplay

Adafruit: Some of your costumes involve body paint or prosthetics. What have you learned about makeup and sculpting from cosplay? Do you have any tips for someone trying body paint for the first time?

Egg Sisters Cosplay: We have learned a lot about makeup and prosthetics since we started cosplay. Even though we researched a lot online, we still had many failures and ended up experimenting with a lot of products before finding what worked best for us. While impressive, makeup and prosthetics are very time consuming to apply. So far it has taken us about 5 hours on average to get fully in costume when makeup is involved.

For body paint, you want a product that can last throughout the day. We have found that a base of PAX paint works best. PAX paint is a mixture of acrylic paint and Pros-Aide prosthetic adhesive. The downside to PAX paint is that is stays too well! It requires Pros-Aide Remover spray and a lot of patience to completely remove it from your skin.

Reinhardt from Overwatch, photo by Egg Sisters Cosplay

Adafruit: You’ve also tackled some massive armor. What material have you found to be the best for creating mega armor pieces?

Egg Sisters Cosplay: Each project certainly calls for its own approach. EVA foam is great for large pieces because it is lightweight, relatively cheap, flexible and can handle some abuse. Pink insulation foam is also a great base material for large pieces. However, it is very fragile on its own so it needs to be covered in something to strengthen it. You can strengthen foam with many different foam coat products or by using Worbla thermoplastic. Worbla is a bit pricey for large projects but its nice and sturdy and you can sculpt it into just about any shape.

Adafruit: What costumes do you both have on your to-make wish lists?

Egg Sisters Cosplay: Oh man. Our wish lists are constantly evolving for sure. We love to do creatures and creepy-type characters. We would really like to make “The Stalk” from the SAGA comic book series. She is a half woman half spider with eight red eyes. We have also always loved the style of the Warhammer universe. We would also love to do our namesake Argonian from Skyrim.

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Keep with Dana’s and Courtney’s latest projects by following Egg Sisters Cosplay on Facebook or Instagram.

Cosplay Interview with Egg Sisters Cosplay

Garuda from Final Fantasy XIV, photo by Cloud Foto

The work of Egg Sisters Cosplay, the Egg Sisters being Dana and Courtney, has come across my desk multiple times. They’re responsible for a massive Overwatch Reinhardt costume and also costumes that include materials such as LEDs, body makeup, and prosthetics. In short, their skills are numerous and diverse. I asked them about materials they favor for armor builds, their tips for applying body paint, and more.

Adafruit: I read you both grew up enjoying conventions and cosplay. How long have each of you been cosplaying and what inspired you to start?

Egg Sisters Cosplay: I think we started cosplay like a lot of kids did. We grew up watching anime and playing video games. We began going to conventions and would attempt group cosplay of our favorite shows, games, or even bands. When we just started, our costumes were mostly modified versions of things we purchased. We didn’t really get serious about it until Final Fantasy FanFest in 2014. Our Garuda Costume was the beginning of Egg Sisters for sure!

Sith Juggernaut from Star Wars: The Old Republic, photo by Cloud Foto

Adafruit: Do you both have similar skill sets or do you have strengths that complement each other – and if so, what are they?

Egg Sisters Cosplay: We certainly have our own skills sets although we end up overlapping our work often. Dana started honing her skills in fine art from an early age. She excels in sculpting, painting, choosing materials and overall quality control. Her artist eye very much guides the aesthetic of every costume.

Courtney handles a lot of the technical side of the projects such as, drawing templates, lighting, electronics and sewing.

In the end we both dabble in all of these skill sets, in addition to all the grunt work such as sanding, mold making, gluing, cutting, painting etc.

When one of us hits a wall the other is always there to pick us up. It is so easy to get frustrated with a project. We are good at motivating each other and problem solving together.

Undead Rogue from World of Warcraft, photo by Egg Sisters Cosplay

Adafruit: Some of your costumes involve body paint or prosthetics. What have you learned about makeup and sculpting from cosplay? Do you have any tips for someone trying body paint for the first time?

Egg Sisters Cosplay: We have learned a lot about makeup and prosthetics since we started cosplay. Even though we researched a lot online, we still had many failures and ended up experimenting with a lot of products before finding what worked best for us. While impressive, makeup and prosthetics are very time consuming to apply. So far it has taken us about 5 hours on average to get fully in costume when makeup is involved.

For body paint, you want a product that can last throughout the day. We have found that a base of PAX paint works best. PAX paint is a mixture of acrylic paint and Pros-Aide prosthetic adhesive. The downside to PAX paint is that is stays too well! It requires Pros-Aide Remover spray and a lot of patience to completely remove it from your skin.

Reinhardt from Overwatch, photo by Egg Sisters Cosplay

Adafruit: You’ve also tackled some massive armor. What material have you found to be the best for creating mega armor pieces?

Egg Sisters Cosplay: Each project certainly calls for its own approach. EVA foam is great for large pieces because it is lightweight, relatively cheap, flexible and can handle some abuse. Pink insulation foam is also a great base material for large pieces. However, it is very fragile on its own so it needs to be covered in something to strengthen it. You can strengthen foam with many different foam coat products or by using Worbla thermoplastic. Worbla is a bit pricey for large projects but its nice and sturdy and you can sculpt it into just about any shape.

Adafruit: What costumes do you both have on your to-make wish lists?

Egg Sisters Cosplay: Oh man. Our wish lists are constantly evolving for sure. We love to do creatures and creepy-type characters. We would really like to make “The Stalk” from the SAGA comic book series. She is a half woman half spider with eight red eyes. We have also always loved the style of the Warhammer universe. We would also love to do our namesake Argonian from Skyrim.

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Keep with Dana’s and Courtney’s latest projects by following Egg Sisters Cosplay on Facebook or Instagram.

Artist constructs Cube Animals with Bizarre Bodies and Angular Anatomies #ArtTuesday

Imaginative new work from Indonesian artist Aditya Aryanto up on designboom.

using images sourced from unsplash and pixabay, aryanto began by re-defining the animal’s original silhouette as a cubic geometry. using photoshop’s liquify tool, the artist reconstructed the shape of the creature by creating sharp corners for edges rather than naturally curved forms. the resulting collection of critters sees an owl turned into a remarkably rectangular bird, a polar bear taking on a decidedly pointed posture, and a mouse mimicking a character straight out of minecraft.  

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Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!

‘Homesick’ by Syrian artist Hrair Sarkissian #ArtTuesday

‘Homesick‘ by Syrian artist Hrair Sarkissian

In ‘Homesick’ (2014) Hrair Sarkissian recreated and destroyed an architecturally exact scaled model of the apartment building in Damascus where his parents are still living. Like many of their generation, they have until now refused to leave Syria. Sarkissian grew up in this building, and lived there until he left Syria in 2008. It represents more than just a house. In addition to providing shelter to his parents, it is the place where he belongs, a container for his memories, and a place for his family’s collective identity.

Through ‘Homesick’ Sarkissian constructs a story that, considering the current political situation and the ongoing destruction in his home country, could very well take place in the near future. What would be the consequences? What is it to expect the worst? Can we fast-forward the present and acknowledge loss and begin reshaping a collapsed history before the event? At the same time, by taking fate into his own hands, he is trying to regain some control over the situation and to tear down an unreal imagination.

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Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!

The Physics of the Leyden Jar in ‘MacGyver’ #MakerEducation

Cool post from Rhett Allain up on WIRED.

IN A RECENT episode of MacGyver, Angus (that’s what his REALLY close friends call him) builds a Leyden jar with some very simple components. Of course there is some awesome physics here, so I will obviously go over this. Full disclosure—I’m currently the Technical Consult for the MacGyver show.

What is a Leyden Jar?
A long time ago, humans were just starting to figure out this whole electricity thing—in particular the study of electrostatics. The Leyden jar was originally used to store electric charge after some rubbed object is charged (like your socks in the dryer). There were two common variations of the Leyden jar, let me illustrate both.

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Each Tuesday is EducationTuesday here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts about educators and all things STEM. Adafruit supports our educators and loves to spread the good word about educational STEM innovations!

The Physics of the Leyden Jar in ‘MacGyver’ #MakerEducation

Cool post from Rhett Allain up on WIRED.

IN A RECENT episode of MacGyver, Angus (that’s what his REALLY close friends call him) builds a Leyden jar with some very simple components. Of course there is some awesome physics here, so I will obviously go over this. Full disclosure—I’m currently the Technical Consult for the MacGyver show.

What is a Leyden Jar?
A long time ago, humans were just starting to figure out this whole electricity thing—in particular the study of electrostatics. The Leyden jar was originally used to store electric charge after some rubbed object is charged (like your socks in the dryer). There were two common variations of the Leyden jar, let me illustrate both.

Read more.

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Each Tuesday is EducationTuesday here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts about educators and all things STEM. Adafruit supports our educators and loves to spread the good word about educational STEM innovations!

The Hunt is a game that doubles as tasteful decor #ArtTuesday

From Dennis Bücker on vimeo:

The Hunt is inspired by board games such as Quoridor, Chess and Ludo. It is a two-player game, where each player has 3 tokens – two hunters and one beast – and the goal is for a hunter to catch the opponent’s beast. At each turn, a player moves one token – up, down, left or right – but the catch is: if moving a hunter, their beast will also have to move, but in the opposite direction. The main strategy of the game is then to find out how to catch the opponent’s beast without sacrificing your own.

See more on vimeo

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Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!

Shaun Leane’s “Beautiful and Grotesque” Jewelry #ArtTuesday

Via 1893 Magazine

…Leane treads a very fine tightrope between the beautiful and the grotesque. He’s always done that, even with his more wearable jewellery: the tusks, the horns, the thorns you apply to your face have a fierceness to them but are, at the same time, beautiful objects with extraordinary lines. He’s an excellent technician – everything is perfectly fashioned. Because his work is so sensational and provocative, people often forget that; but the results are always flawlessly achieved.

He will endure because he has such a singular voice, and marries technical expertise with conceptual complexity. The designers that last in jewellery and fashion are those who stay true to their voice and adapt over time. Leane has a very distinct vocabulary that evolves year after year – strong designers know their own leitmotif. In ten years’ time, I know I’ll be able to recognise his work at a glance, because of its overtly primal nature. Everything he designs has a barbarity about it.

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Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!

Electric Current Model: Physics & Electricity Science Activity #MakerEducation

Another great activity from the Exploratorium Teacher Institute Project.

Model the motion of electrons through a wire by pushing on a circle of small magnets around the rim of a large magnet.

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Each Tuesday is EducationTuesday here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts about educators and all things STEM. Adafruit supports our educators and loves to spread the good word about educational STEM innovations!

Electric Current Model: Physics & Electricity Science Activity #MakerEducation

Another great activity from the Exploratorium Teacher Institute Project.

Model the motion of electrons through a wire by pushing on a circle of small magnets around the rim of a large magnet.

Read more.

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Each Tuesday is EducationTuesday here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts about educators and all things STEM. Adafruit supports our educators and loves to spread the good word about educational STEM innovations!

Seraphina Picquery Costume with a Hand-Beading Workaround

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’s Seraphina Picquery has power in the Magical Congress of the USA and an elegant wardrobe. Replica Props Forum (RPF) user ATL Kenobi and his wife teamed up to make a replica of Seraphina’s dress for the Harry Potter celebration that recently happened at Wizarding World Orlando. They found a clever workaround for Seraphina’s gown that I wanted to share. When they started work on the costume, it looked as though the character was wearing a sparkling breastplate — once more hi-res photos came out, they realized it was actually hand-beading. But! Their solution looks great and is passable for beading from a distance. They used sparkling ribbon.

Kenobi cut the ribbon based on a sketch he created of the design on Seraphina’s gown. He made a template, glued that template to the back of the ribbon using stencil adhesive, and then cut around the template. He set the edges of the ribbon with Fray Check to make sure they wouldn’t start feathering. He followed the same process for the gold and blue ribbon. See a couple in progress photos below.

See more of the intricate build at The RPF.

Seraphina Picquery Costume with a Hand-Beading Workaround

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’s Seraphina Picquery has power in the Magical Congress of the USA and an elegant wardrobe. Replica Props Forum (RPF) user ATL Kenobi and his wife teamed up to make a replica of Seraphina’s dress for the Harry Potter celebration that recently happened at Wizarding World Orlando. They found a clever workaround for Seraphina’s gown that I wanted to share. When they started work on the costume, it looked as though the character was wearing a sparkling breastplate — once more hi-res photos came out, they realized it was actually hand-beading. But! Their solution looks great and is passable for beading from a distance. They used sparkling ribbon.

Kenobi cut the ribbon based on a sketch he created of the design on Seraphina’s gown. He made a template, glued that template to the back of the ribbon using stencil adhesive, and then cut around the template. He set the edges of the ribbon with Fray Check to make sure they wouldn’t start feathering. He followed the same process for the gold and blue ribbon. See a couple in progress photos below.

See more of the intricate build at The RPF.