Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
Hacking Toys and Clothes

MAKE Demos , Saturday 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM MAKE and CRAFT online editor Becky Stern shows how she made her TV-B-Gone Hoodie, the sweatshirt that turns off TVs, and how to hack an electronic toy to change its sound. Don't miss her Twitchie Scorpion and Human Hair Blythe doll.

MAKE and CRAFT online editor Becky Stern hacks toys and clothes to make art, new toys, musical instruments, and wearable electronics. She'll show how she made her TV-B-Gone Hoodie, the sweatshirt that turns off TVs, and how to hack the circuit board of an electronic toy to change its sound. Don't miss Becky's Twitchie Scorpion toy and Human Hair Blythe doll.

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Becky Stern Becky Stern [
Becky is a contributer to the CRAFT and MAKE blogs as well as a graduate student in sculpture at Arizona State University. Becky creates artwork and writings about the exciting intersections therein. In her free time she enjoys traveling, barcodes, culture jamming, plants, soldering and knitting.
http://sternlab.org

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