How to Make an Amazing Dryad With Tech #WearableWednesday #wearabletech #Arduino #DIY #art

You are probably wondering what a dryad looks like or where it lives. Students at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand came up with some answers with a tech filled costume. Here is their description of the creature.

Inspired by the mythical Greek tree nymphs, Dryad is a woodland creature with a shell of bark and moss. Its branch limbs sway whilst fireflies glow under a mane of mossy dreads. Hiding in the forest only a glance of its face can be seen whilst it skulks from copse to copse.

Servos on the back add movement to branches giving tree-like life, while warm LED strings glow in the garment, all thanks to an Arduino. Like other quality projects I’ve seen from this university, special attention is given to the materials, which in this case includes antlers and Mānuka bark. A shout-out to Sophie Price, Ivy Calvert and Phoebe Zeller for their wonderful work combining natural materials with electronics for an amazing character. Hopefully filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan will look this team up for his next costumes! If you want to learn how to incorporate electronics into costumes, check out our learning guide for the Flora microcontroller. You can add LEDs and sensors to your projects using conductive thread or wire; it’s the easy way to incorporate tech while keeping things comfortable.

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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!

How to Make an Amazing Dryad With Tech #WearableWednesday #wearabletech #Arduino #DIY #art

You are probably wondering what a dryad looks like or where it lives. Students at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand came up with some answers with a tech filled costume. Here is their description of the creature.

Inspired by the mythical Greek tree nymphs, Dryad is a woodland creature with a shell of bark and moss. Its branch limbs sway whilst fireflies glow under a mane of mossy dreads. Hiding in the forest only a glance of its face can be seen whilst it skulks from copse to copse.

Servos on the back add movement to branches giving tree-like life, while warm LED strings glow in the garment, all thanks to an Arduino. Like other quality projects I’ve seen from this university, special attention is given to the materials, which in this case includes antlers and Mānuka bark. A shout-out to Sophie Price, Ivy Calvert and Phoebe Zeller for their wonderful work combining natural materials with electronics for an amazing character. Hopefully filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan will look this team up for his next costumes! If you want to learn how to incorporate electronics into costumes, check out our learning guide for the Flora microcontroller. You can add LEDs and sensors to your projects using conductive thread or wire; it’s the easy way to incorporate tech while keeping things comfortable.

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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!

How to Make an Amazing Dryad With Tech #WearableWednesday #wearabletech #Arduino #DIY #art

You are probably wondering what a dryad looks like or where it lives. Students at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand came up with some answers with a tech filled costume. Here is their description of the creature.

Inspired by the mythical Greek tree nymphs, Dryad is a woodland creature with a shell of bark and moss. Its branch limbs sway whilst fireflies glow under a mane of mossy dreads. Hiding in the forest only a glance of its face can be seen whilst it skulks from copse to copse.

Servos on the back add movement to branches giving tree-like life, while warm LED strings glow in the garment, all thanks to an Arduino. Like other quality projects I’ve seen from this university, special attention is given to the materials, which in this case includes antlers and Mānuka bark. A shout-out to Sophie Price, Ivy Calvert and Phoebe Zeller for their wonderful work combining natural materials with electronics for an amazing character. Hopefully filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan will look this team up for his next costumes! If you want to learn how to incorporate electronics into costumes, check out our learning guide for the Flora microcontroller. You can add LEDs and sensors to your projects using conductive thread or wire; it’s the easy way to incorporate tech while keeping things comfortable.

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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!

How to Make an Amazing Dryad With Tech #WearableWednesday #wearabletech #Arduino #DIY #art

You are probably wondering what a dryad looks like or where it lives. Students at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand came up with some answers with a tech filled costume. Here is their description of the creature.

Inspired by the mythical Greek tree nymphs, Dryad is a woodland creature with a shell of bark and moss. Its branch limbs sway whilst fireflies glow under a mane of mossy dreads. Hiding in the forest only a glance of its face can be seen whilst it skulks from copse to copse.

Servos on the back add movement to branches giving tree-like life, while warm LED strings glow in the garment, all thanks to an Arduino. Like other quality projects I’ve seen from this university, special attention is given to the materials, which in this case includes antlers and Mānuka bark. A shout-out to Sophie Price, Ivy Calvert and Phoebe Zeller for their wonderful work combining natural materials with electronics for an amazing character. Hopefully filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan will look this team up for his next costumes! If you want to learn how to incorporate electronics into costumes, check out our learning guide for the Flora microcontroller. You can add LEDs and sensors to your projects using conductive thread or wire; it’s the easy way to incorporate tech while keeping things comfortable.

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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!

How to Make an Amazing Dryad With Tech #WearableWednesday #wearabletech #Arduino #DIY #art

You are probably wondering what a dryad looks like or where it lives. Students at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand came up with some answers with a tech filled costume. Here is their description of the creature.

Inspired by the mythical Greek tree nymphs, Dryad is a woodland creature with a shell of bark and moss. Its branch limbs sway whilst fireflies glow under a mane of mossy dreads. Hiding in the forest only a glance of its face can be seen whilst it skulks from copse to copse.

Servos on the back add movement to branches giving tree-like life, while warm LED strings glow in the garment, all thanks to an Arduino. Like other quality projects I’ve seen from this university, special attention is given to the materials, which in this case includes antlers and Mānuka bark. A shout-out to Sophie Price, Ivy Calvert and Phoebe Zeller for their wonderful work combining natural materials with electronics for an amazing character. Hopefully filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan will look this team up for his next costumes! If you want to learn how to incorporate electronics into costumes, check out our learning guide for the Flora microcontroller. You can add LEDs and sensors to your projects using conductive thread or wire; it’s the easy way to incorporate tech while keeping things comfortable.

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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!

On Dolce & Gabbana’s Runway Drones: Being human is so last season

via FashNerd

Who would have guessed that Dolce & Gabbana’s drones will steal the show at Milan Fashion Week? Even Anna Wintour, Vogue’s editor-in-chief was impressed. Although it was an obvious pr stunt, in a way, experimenting with drones, I guess, was a rather odd nod towards the merger of fashion with technology. Also, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana managed to secure some serious column inches too.

Seated and ready to watch the show, attendees where first instructed to turn off the wi-fi on their phones, to prevent interference with the devices’ control systems. As the whispers intensified, probably because the show was running 45 mins later than scheduled, the first drone buzzed on stage carrying a $3,000+ D&G handbag. The remote-control drones hovered above the catwalk, wowing the attending guests, before the human models including Hailey Baldwin made an appearance on the runway.

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These Amazing Wings Will Make You Want to Fly #WearableWednesday #wearabletech #cosplay #robotics #art

Have you ever seen a portfolio of wings? These beauties by Alexis Noriega @TheCrookedFeather copy real birds and also delve into the fantasy varieties, all with mechanical engineering. Some use a pulley system while others work with pneumatics and electronics. She has a community of followers on Patreon and has even created a Frameworks kit so others can start designing their own wings. People often ask how you can turn making into a job, and I believe Alexis is well on her way. Along with her tutorials and talks on Patreon, she also does some incredible commissions. One set of wings that is especially inventive is her da Vinci Steampunk—somebody call the Smithsonian!

As a costume designer, Alexis knows how to work with texture, yet allow for movement and durability. She also knows how to paint feathers and layer them to give a realistic appearance since she has her own pet birds, including an attention grabber named “Coconut”. Her passion for winged beings has created niche maker work that is attracting cosplayers, models, costume makers and fantasy lovers. By sharing her construction techniques she has created a community of makers that is also helping to invent the next set of wings. If wings seems too ambitious for your next project, have a little fun with cosplay with our learning guide for an Animatronic Tail. You can add an animal trait to any costume with a simple servo, and have fun learning about electronics at the same time. Make sure you send us a video of your creation!

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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!