Hey, I know many of you were following the "Get Closer" challenge and I wanted to let you know that the tutorial for the FLORAbrella is now posted here on Adafruit's site. It's been a great experience writing up my directions ...

Thanks to all the competitors in the Adafruit + element14 FLORA "Get Closer" Challenge! It was an absolute pleasure to watch the journeys of eight wearables projects in the e14 Arduino community.We had to name a winner, but we couldn't decide on just...

Here is my final blog post in the element14/Adafruit "Get Closer" Wearables Challenge.... Let's wrap things up with a video!players.brightcove.net/.../index.html I really can't thank element14 and Adafruit enough for inclu...

Wow, it has been quite a project.  From my beginning research of unique umbrellas, to wiring individually addressable LED Neopixel strips and facing 3D printing – I’ve just learned so much.  Adafruit’s Forum has been outst...

I was really hoping that I would have cracked on with the jacket this week in the evenings after work. I even missed roller skating on Tuesday night and rushed back from ice skating on Wednesday, but unfortunately due to issues arising at work meant ...

Before I publish my last post I wanted to review a few things about the project as a whole.  First I made a video to show you how I attached the conductive fabric buttons to my project. I did this a bit different from the ways shown in the Adafr...

This is it! My final post This is were you get to see my ColorCam and this nifty video I made.  First of all I would like to take the opportunity to thank Element14 and Adafruit for selecting me for this challenge. It was one bumpy, but instruc...

So only two more things need to do today. I need to write my final post containing a video of the ColorCam, and I want to show my newest adition to this project.  When we were experimenting with the colorsensor we quickly found out that a large,...

Here was the drawing we included in our initial bid.  And we kind of got there but time ran out on us.  The failures just kept multiplying yesterday after we tried to take a video of them in action.  Here is a pic from yesterday.&...

Jeej! I finished my entire project today And I'm pretty happy with the result too! Last night we finally finished the colorissues as well as the conductive fabric buttons and we could put the whole camera together. Yesterday I showed you a pictu...

I decided to call this chapter circuit wizardry because it  takes magic and a little luck to make it happen.  The LED strips have three copper pads on the end, yet I needed to mount five wires on each one so I could keep the majority of the...

The competition is almost over and as always, there are still things to do! Not all of them necessary, but all are great fun! The assembling of the ColorCam is what's first on the list. The foam I used for the interior of the camera is perfe...

Everything is now sewn on to the jacket:   I've carried out an LED test to check that I'm ok powering from  3.3V and it seems that everything is ok, so that's saved routing another power line down the length of my arm.  ...

So, I had to create a handle for my umbrella because I wanted to embed a switch into the bottom of it.  In order to do this, I had a couple of alternatives -- my first idea was wood, but it just didn't speak to the sci-fi part of me.  The s...

Can't believe how quickly time is going, work has been busy recently so I haven't had as much time to dedicate as I would have liked. I got most of the jacket pieced together, but unfortunately I then went to get the zip. Recently we've moved ho...

In case anyone was wondering about the construction of our costumes, here are some pics.  We used fleece as a lining.  It is a very forgiving fabric to work with.  Then a fleece strip on top of that to run the LED strip through.  ...

I think it is good to be honest about  the process, and not every day is filled with Neopixel rainbows.  Today I was working on hacking some code to make a nicer rain pattern -- one with random rain drops.  Currently the pattern is run...

September has been crazy busy.  I can remember the last few days of August just as I was gatting into full swing with Wearables challenge and then Whoosh or something like that,  its nearly the end of September and the challenge part of the...

 My boyfriend Victor showed me this cartoon once and I thought it was funny, but I didn't quite get it. Last week, when he was listening to me trying to program my Flora for a few hours in a row, he showed it again. This time I got it. This ...

Hi everyone, so sorry it took me so long to get another blogpost online. But you'll be hearing (or rather, reading) from me today and later this week!I have to start this post with some sad news, because I have a suspicion that my Floraboard is n...

It's a busy time at my hackerspace right now, as MakerFaire NY is right around the corner.  However, I managed to squeeze in some quality time with the band saw tonight.  You know what I'm up to.... getting rid of that ugly curled handle, a...

The coding is basically done, now for the construction.  Just wanted to let the other competitors know where we are 2/5ths of one costume complete (see video below).  These costumes are going to be hard to beat if everything comes together ...

I just returned from an exciting Open Hardware Summit in Boston.  It was great to meet so many other people jazzed about controllers and educational kits.  I brought some of my FLORA parts hoping that I would work on them, but instead, I to...

Unfortunately due to a small but constant stream of visitors and other events which have come up, I've not got as far along as I'd have hoped, and this post has taken me a week to find time to post due to work, but I'm hoping to get on top of it agai...

I want the light in our baby's costome to have a sort of physical property where light drops to the bottom if the baby is lifted up and light rises to the top of the baby's costume if he accelerates down.  This is a little harder than Be...