Maker Faire City of STEM + Los Angeles 2024
Sprite Lights
Home: California, United States
We all have a story, a style, a unique identity. With Sprite Lights you can express yourself brightly and boldly by lighting up a room when you enter – literally. Show the world who you are through electronic body art.
https://spritelights.com/
Maker
Katherine Connell
There’s a family joke about my being created in my parent’s garage using the greatest technology of the early 80s. Hence the various online handles and nicknames of TheSmallWonder or Smalls for short. But also, it’s believable as some of my earliest memories are of building robot kits with my mom and helping my dad package his homemade graphic cards to sell at Fry’s Electronics. I have no formal training or background in engineering and I’m a self taught maker who knows just enough to break things spectacularly. But I like to think that’s what’s so great about being a maker.
More...What Inspired You to Make This?
The Sprite Lights project started back in late 2017 and was a rally cry to blend technology with art. So many sci-fi novels, movies, comics, and more feature worlds and characters with body modifications. And while that sounds cool, we’re a long way off from that future. So how do we create new and innovative ways to express ourselves with today’s technology? How do we blur the lines between electronics and art? This question is how Sprite Lights was born. Created by me, Katherine Connell, it has taken winding and endlessly curious path and the project continues to evolve to this day.
