Fabricating an Interactive Wedding Gown

Hacking fashion and electronics,from the folks at Electricfoxy:

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For the past few months, I’ve been working with high school senior girls, Meron Shiferaw and Tsedey Tadesse, at Roosevelt High School in Seattle on a collaborative, cross-disciplinary project. The project introduces the young women to both technology and fashion and how to merge them into a new experience in the shape of an interactive wedding gown. Throughout the months, they’ve been learning basic electronics, programming, fashion design and fashion construction. And these girls are rockstars! They are not afraid to get their hands into wiring, sewing and building what could be a fairly complicated electronic design and garment integration.

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