Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
Making things light up: Lights for clothes, accessories, props & more
Home: United States
Ever wanted to shed a bit of light on your clothes or accessories? Wanted to not get in the dark and make stuff that lights up? Two educators & makers want to help make lights accessible to the art, design, performing arts & maker community, and we want to make a book that champions project-based learning! From non-electronic lights, fairy lights to programmable LED strips, our book covers troubleshooting, debugging, and safety that progresses along with the projects. We will bring demos and make & takes of these sample projects, so you can get a hands-on preview of our book!
https://craftysorceress.com
Maker
Crafty Sorceress
I’m a multi-award-winning master-level cosplayer, researcher, and professor empowering people to craft, make and build, from handsewing, to electronics and everything in between! My costumes have been awarded multiple awards including 1st place, best cosplay/prop, best in convention theme, and finalist in international costuming competitions.
https://www.craftysorceress.comWhat Inspired You to Make This?
We saw an opportunity gap between maker & electronics books, tailored for electronics fans & engineers, and lights books for artists, which are often inaccurate & unsafe, lacking basic electronics education, debugging, troubleshooting, and safety precautions. To highlight this example, a cosplayer insisted he needed 7V power because his LED strip had a 3rd line, likely due to programming. He guessed this based on reading tutorials from a cosplayer of great fame but little grounding in electronics. Such misunderstandings can lead to grave mistakes with serious safety considerations. We want our book to educate cosplayers, costume designers, prop makers, and artists & designers broadly. Our project-based book is backed by the latest in education pedagogy, teaching & learning, along with teaching these topics, including electronics & programming, to novices all around the country.
