What happens when you take a white faux-leather band, and sprinkle some Sparkle and rhinestones? You get one lovely piece of play wear. This is a charming little wrist band that you can make and program with those special little girls in your life.

We've done the bracelet kit before, but this version is bound to appeal to a younger age group. Just point the bracelet at a computer screen, drag some sliders, and you're good to go. There's also a text interface for creating more intricate patterns.

Spice up a classic craft by adding some Sparkle to a frame made from felt and foam core. Use it to keep pictures, art projects, and other bits and pieces of creativity.

It makes a great nightlight to help nudge your little one to sleep.

Yukari Tsuda owns Flower arrangement studio, PISTACHE, in Tokyo, and specializes in creating delightful pieces for any occassion. She encourages us all to brighten up our daily lives with flowers, even if it's just a tiny one tucked behind your ear.

During her visit to Boulder, we wanted to experiment a bit with adding some Sparkle to a corsage, and the result was just phenomenal! Arigatou Yukari-san! (^_^)/

Out on the town this valentine's? Accessorize with this elegant sparkling choker designed by aniomagic friend Dia Campbell!

Using sparkle and sequins, she fashioned this really cute choker to light up the night with some soft twinkles.

We've put together a complete tutorial so you can make your own. enjoy!

Every Valentine's day, Textile enchantress @lbruning gives away a cute tutu to a lucky person. This year, "it will be given away by the beautiful and inspiring @galadarling as a super special Valentine's Day treat!"

What's really exciting is she is the first showcase for the upcoming Sparkle, a tiny bit of etextile magic to quickly and easily add some sparkle to your outfit. We'll premier Sparkle really soon! We think you'll love it.

You've got in your hands all the pieces you need to make the world's coolest programmable bracelet. Take it to raves, use it when you bike at night, and just light up the night.

Best of all, you can reprogram it right from your iPhone/iPod or computer screen.

This quilt was made during our March 2010 workshop in Brazil. Each patch is decorated with high- and low-tech materials: paint, felt, buttons, sequins, mimeolight, lightboards, etc.

By far our biggest workshop ever: 5 days, 10 core folks, and more than 300 collaborators. Most participants were passersby who spent just a few minutes sewing, ironing, decorating, or programming. Everyone was free to do something, even if they could only spend 5 minutes. An individual patch could have up to 10 authors, distributed in space and time.

What's more fun than a bristlebot? Why a light-sensitive bristlebot, of course!

A bristlebot is a vibrating robot based on a toothbrush. It uses a motor with an unbalanced weight (like pager motors) which causes the entire thing to skitter across a surface. Popularized by the awesome folks at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, we added a learning sensor to the mix so it runs in the dark, or in the light. You can also make it run only in the right temperature or when it gets loud, or something with the appropriate sensor.
 
 

We combined an off-the-shelf laser pointer, schemer, and a specially-modified magic dock to create an iPod remote control that you can wave at. Instead of walking all the way over to the stereo, or looking for a remote that we can never find, we can change music from anywhere in our shop space just by waving our hands.

Now why would we ask such a question?
Remember, Aniomagic is about stylishly blending electronics with fashion.

After studying this project, you'll be able to dramatically reach for your dress to change songs on your iPod/iPhone.

In this example, we open the handles, insert some conductive fabrics & thread, and attach the magic dock. Now you don't have to remove your ipod from this stylish bag. Just squeeze the handle to change tracks or volume. Perfect for winter, no?

Want one? Just drop us a line.  

The remote control kit is a pretty easy way to make a unique fabric-based remote control for your iPod or iPhone. Here's how to put one together, using conductive fabrics, our own hand-spun conductive yarn, and the magic dock.

We didn't expect this little cat to be sooo popular   (@_@)   but the response has been sooo wonderful, sooo please do tell the folks at Aranzi Aronzo we said "Hi! & Thx!"

Enjoy these pictures of a workshop in Japan using the bracelet kit.
I really like how she further decorates the bracelet with little gemstones.

See how he seems to look down, wearing a slight smile? That's because he gets happy and blinks his lights when you tickle his feet... or when I get a hug :-)

The touch-sensitive learning sensor can be calibrated to detect direct contact, or proximity to another person.

Apparently I am a "nekojita," (Japanese for a person who can't handle hot food). Cats don't like high temperature food (they say), so a person who doesn't fancy molten bits in their mouth is called nekojita (cat tongue).

This smart coaster monitors drink temperatures: green means it's just right, red means it's way too hot, and white means it needs reheating.

The wonderful thing about the learning sensor is that you don't have to hook it up to a computer to use it for other temperature ranges.

I got inspired when I saw this really beautiful patterned cloth while browsing at Joann's here in Boulder. I thought it would be nice if I could take a quick glance and get a sense of the outside temperature.

The emerald lightboards come on if the weather outside is comfortable. Otherwise, the ruby lights come on if it's hot, and the diamonds if it's cold.

This is a simpler version of the tapestry example above. It has only 3 lightboards and uses a tilt switch as the calibrate button.

We've also put all the pieces together into one kit so it's now easier to get started.

This project shows how to sew a learning sensor into a shirt. Different colored lightboards come on depending on the ambient temperature.

I still get a kick out of the cool racing effect when I press the calibrate switch :-)

Isn't this the cutest cellphone cozy ever? I got the entire kit from Yuzawaya crafts in Kobe Japan (think Joann's or Michael's on seven! floors. This store had a whole floor dedicated to beads!)

The white flower centers twinkle when I close the case, thanks to the mimeolight and magnetic snap.

As the title suggests, you can make this leather band in under 10 minutes. To change the flashing pattern, simply aim a flashlight.

I probably should have used a better battery holder than the paper clip, eh?

There's nothing worse than having a wonderfully soft, washable, and slim e-textile project than having to use an ugly, thick, plastic battery holder.

This is a quick tutorial on how to make your own cute battery holder from felt and conductive fabric. Get yours here.

This is a rather straightforward tutorial on the sewing kit. The turtle (tortoise?) is gazing at a pair of mangoes(?) which light up when the sun is pressed.

We love to show this in our children's craft and circuits workshops, as it gets the imagination going, yet still easy to understand.

Avast ye! Dis 'ere be a pulse warrmarrr fer ye lilly livr'd landlubbers wot need to keep ye 'rist waarm d'rin' d' colde hallow'eenin'. Hiz eyes be glow'in' if ye push 'im, aye!

Argh!!!!

Instead of a candle in a carved-out pumpkin, you can embed led sequins into the eyes of this laser-cut jack'o'lantern.

Making this was plenty fun and I got lots of attention showing it off.

I normally decorate my bookbag with all sorts of trinkets and dangly things, and saw this cute dragonly while perusing the aisles of Joann's. I was going to put this on a t-shirt, but it ended up looking pretty nice on the bookbag.

If I was to do it again, I'd use a tilt switch instead, so it would flash as I walked.