When learning an instrument you can study all the notes but it can still be hard to get the feel. This research project from Yiyue Luo with MIT is turning to haptics and machine learning to help. A pianist wore gloves with sensors to record all the finger movements. These were transfered to students with haptic motors. The students with the gloves showed improved accuracy over standard teaching. They also tested out the gloves on gaming with similar results. Via Scientific American: Using a computerized embroidery machine, the team embedded small wires linked to a pressure-sensing material i ..read more

Sleep Review Mag shares how Bridget Armstrong, Ph.D. of the University of South Carolina was awarded a $3.5 million grant to test a wearable device specifically designed to monitor children’s physical activity, sedentary time, and sleep. Bridget Armstrong, PhD, has been awarded a $3.5 million grant from the NIH to test PATCH, a device designed to monitor children’s health metrics such as activity levels and sleep. Unlike existing trackers that are not tailored for children, PATCH is small, unobtrusive, and custom-made for comfort and long-term wear, utilizing open-source software to allow re ..read more

–  Charlie Brown famously had no touch at all with regards to becoming a ghost. His clumsy hands led him to doing a real Charlie Brown to his annual halloween efforts, which led to a costume that looked more like Swiss cheese than a friendly ghost. A ghost failure of that sort might come in real handy to owners of Apple Watches. Wonderful wearable thought they are, Apple Watches are subject to “ghost touches.” Here’s more from Warable: Apple continues to investigate an issue relating to ‘ghost touches’ on displays of some of its smartwatches – but there are a couple of steps you can perf ..read more

Some fancy cars have HUD displays. MPH, speed limit, map directions, and other information can be projected on the windshield. Now similar functions can be found in swimming goggles! Here’s more from Wareable! The built-in heart rate monitoring negates the need for additional wearables (though integration with the Apple Watch and Garmin watches remains), and Form’s internal tests suggest the accuracy can match up pretty closely to a chest strap. We’ll be showing our own findings in our full Smart Swim 2 review (coming soon), but the company indicates that these latest goggles exhibit an aver ..read more

Angela Sheehan made these rad infinity mirror cat ears a couple years ago and we just wanted to remind y’all how sick this build is over on Hackster.io! These infinity mirror ears were made from some scrap acrylic mirrors and addressable LED strips leftover from my infinity mirror heels project. Read more ..read more

Here’s the thing abou the sun: it won’t go out for a very, very long time. Fog burns off. Clouds blow away. The earth will turn, night will fade away, and dawn will arrive. Every day. So a solar powered wristwatch just might work! Here’s more from Serhii Trush, via hackaday: The wristwatch’s operation is demonstrated in the linked video (in Ukrainian, auto-generated subtitles available): to read out the current time, the button in the center is pressed, which first shows the hour, then the minutes (in 5 minute intervals). After this the ATtiny13 MCU goes back to sleep, briefly waking up ever ..read more

Check out the latest guide from Erin St Blaine: add lights to your festival coat and control the lights with your phone. This guide will show two different ways to add animated NeoPixel lights to your favorite furry festie warmie. From the guide: Hold onto your hat, ’cause your threads are about to get a serious upgrade, man. We’re talkin’ LED lights for your furry coat, but not just any lights, my friends. We’re talkin’ lights that’ll have you struttin’ like a disco diva under the neon glow. This guide will demonstrate two different methods of lighting up a coat: Fur Trim Lights: String LE ..read more

It wasn’t until very recently that I understood how much LED wristbands add to experiencing a show. Learn about the how PixMob uses these wearables allowing crowd members to become a part of a major production from The Wall Street Journal on YouTube Make your own glowing bracelet with one of these guides in the Adafruit Learning System: NeoPixel Bracelet Color Mixing QT Py Cuff Bracelet LED Friendship Bracelet NeoPixel Ring Bangle Bracelet BLE Vibration Bracelet Buzzing Mindfulness Bracelet June UV Sensor Bracelet Teardown 3D Printed Glow-Spike Bracelet ..read more

Katherine Becvar, the creative mind behind Blue Moon Designs, is bringing light up jewelry and fashion to the cosplay world using Adafruit technology. Her work is a gorgeous blend of historic designs and modern tech, as she infuses her costume pieces and accessories with lovely and tasteful animated lights. See an interview of Katherine on YouTube and get a glimpse of her work in action. Katherine’s passion for creating captivating costumes led her to pursue a degree in Costume and Textile Design from the University of California, Davis. However, it was Adafruit’s tutorials that sparked a new ..read more

Smart watches are showing up on wrists all over the world. These tiny wearable computers may seem like they’re arcane and too tiny for mere makers to make. But it is very much not true. Here’s a DIY smart watch from akashv44  on Instructables Using an ESP8266 chip, the ESP-12E, I will demonstrate how to build a DIY smartwatch in this project. I’ve written down every step. The time, weather, and most significantly the ability to control other appliances using the watch’s buttons are its key features. The watch must be linked to the internet in order to work because it receives all of its ..read more