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Kate Hartman turned me on to the nifitiest place ever: the Big Button.
This is the information center for the Fashion District. You need to know where to get something there, they’ll tell you. It’s located at the corner of 39th St. and Seventh Ave.and well worth a visit.
Christopher Palmer’s got a couple of nice sites dedicated to mechanics for artists. Check out kineticworld.com, his blog on mechanical art, and the ROMFA (Rudiments of Mechanics for Artists) wiki as well. Thanks to CTP for the links.
From Mouna Andraos, some notes on thermochromic inks:
“Basically, the main company in the US seems to be Chromatic Technologies. They have the widest product line and appear to provide some of the smaller resellers as well (they sell minimum by the 1/2 gallon i think). The stuff we have right now is from: Matsui. It’s for screen-printing on fabrics. They also have products specifically for dying and plastics.
“The problem is that all of the products we have come across start with a color and go to clear or to a lighter color when activated with heat (or cold).”
Technorati Tags: thermochromic, wearables
Amazing Magnets sells rare earth magnets, ferrofluid, and other magnet products. Thanks to Zach Layton for the link.
Mettrix is an upstate NY company that does PCB fab and assembly. Their work is recommended by Todd Polenberg, and apparently they can do Ball grid array parts too.
Thanks to Todd Polenberg for the link.
Technorati Tags: CNC, electronics, PCB
Sasha Harris-Cronin gave a talk at O’Reilly’s Maker Faire on DIY touchpanels. Her notes are online here.
She also sent these links on multitouch, because she’s a peach.
http://multitouch.nl/documents/multitouchdisplay_howto_070523_v02.pdf
http://nuigroup.com/wiki/Touchlib/
Thanks to Sash for the link.
Technorati Tags: displays, multitouch, sensors, touch panels
You know that place on Canal St. that sells used motors from A/C units, refrigerators, and so forth? It’s called Electric Trading Company, and the URL is blowerwheel.com. 313 Canal St. Thanks to Lesley Flanagan for the link.
Technorati Tags: mechanics, motors, New York Suppliers
LEah Buechley sent a note about Tinsel Trading Company:
“I got a lovely package from Tinsel Trading company today & this reminded me to email you about them. They’re on 38th St in manhattan & they have an amazing cache of vintage metal fabrics, threads, & trimmings, many breathtaking. Most threads are too delicate for machine stitching, but perfect for couture. calling out to be put to use in some beautiful itp project ;-)”
Technorati Tags: buechley, conductive thread, New York Suppliers, wearables
The RepRap project is an open-source rapid prototyper. Seems like a very nifty thing to build in one’s (well-equipped) basement. Sebastien Baillard from the project sent along some helpful links on using Friendly Plastic as well:
Thanks to Sebastien for the links.
Sparkfun has started two new spin-off sites recently, BatchPCB and OpenCircuits.
BatchPCB is a site for getting printed circuit boards printed cheaply: $2.50 per square inch. Send them a Gerber file and they send you your boards. It’s slower than other PCB fab sites, because they manufacture them in batches, but it’s one of the cheapest I’ve seen.
OpenCircuits is an open wiki of circuits for projects. So far most of the circuits there are parts from the Sparkfun inventory, but others are undoubtedly on their way. It’s open to contributions as well.
Technorati Tags: electronics, PCB
