Sahrye Cohen - Make It, Wear It: Wearable Electronics for Makers, Crafters, and Cosplayers

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Sahrye Cohen is the co-founder and chief designer of the tech couture design group, Amped Atelier. She teaches workshops on wearable electronics for costumers and cosplayers and has published articles on 3D printing in Make: magazine and on cosplay techniques in The Virtual Costumer.

Hal Rodriguez is a maker and programmer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co-founder and chief technologist of the tech couture design group, Amped Atelier. He has over 20 years of programming experience and has published articles on 3D printing in Make: magazine.

THANK YOU TO THE EDITORS AND STAFF AT MCGRAW-HILL TAB FOR YOUR INTEREST AND professionalism in guiding this book to completion. Fantastic maker Alison Lewis provided some excellent advice at the start of this project; and Shannon Hoover, Maria Elena Hoover, and the community at MakeFashion really helped us get started making fashion tech. Our wonderful models, Jade Rose, Monica Jackson, Ky Faubion, and G.G., brought the projects beautifully to life. Many thanks to Jason Martineau for his artistry and wonderful photography. Thanks also to Galeet Cohen, Talia Timmins, and Holly Costa for help in organizing, proofreading, and general encouragement.

WITH WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY, YOU CAN MAKE FUNCTIONAL, USEFUL, AND BEAUTIFUL GARMENTS that become an interface, connecting people to other people and promoting meaningful interactions between individuals and the whole of the world around them. Clothes become another part of the digital world, interacting with smartphone applications and social media views and giving onlookers a glimpse into your personality, your mood, and even your thoughts. In this book weve designed projects that combine electronics with modern fabrication technology such as 3D printers and laser cutters to produce wearable projects that a few years ago were only accessible to major designers and fashion houses. Using home machines and shared makerspaces, you can make personalized clothing and accessories that bring the imaginings of a science fiction future to today.

Electronics, whether a simple light-up circuit or a complex programmed design, can create visual interest and fun interactive clothing. Want to play video games directly on your clothes? The Gamer Girls dresses by Phi Designs uses programmable lights for two players to play against each other right on the front of the dresses ().

Figure 1.1 Gamer Girl dresses by Phi Designs use microcontrollers and addressable light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to play a video game right on the wearers dress. (Courtesy of Ernesto Augustus at the Make Fashion Gala, 2016)

Other clothes can interact with social media, using smartphone applications and microprocessors to display words from Twitter or other social platforms. Reflections, designed by Amped Atelier, uses a smartphone app to scroll words on the front of an evening gown ().

Figure 1.2 Connecting LEDs with a smartphone app allows clothes to display words, animations, and even social media connections. (