Shopping in & out of Portland

As I mentioned recently, I do have a show yet to come in Portland this holiday season. ADX will be hosting Gifted: A Maker’s Marketplace this Saturday, December 17th from 11am to 5pm. Continue Reading →

Win an LED embroidery kit!

As much as I love my little bear, it’s time for some more variety in LED embroidery kit options. Continue Reading →

Sewing Electrified!

A recent addition to Polymath Design Lab’s offering is the Sewing Electrified line of electronic sewing kits. I’m really excited about these kits, and I’ve heard great things back from the people who have tried them out so far.

Conductive glove working

Touch Screen Glove Kits

I’ve started things off with a kit to make gloves that work with iPhones and other gadgets with capacitive touch screens, and a constellation embroidery kit that lights up with LEDs. One of my goals is to help make the field of eTextiles more accessible, so both of these kits have been designed to be easy enough for someone with little to no experience with either sewing or electronics. Continue Reading →

A Polymath’s Halloween

Halloween is my favorite holiday. I love the costumes, and the spookiness, and the sense of fun and playfulness that seems to me to be more entrenched in Halloween than any of the other major holidays. Continue Reading →

What’s in a Name?

I said I’d post next about how I came by the name Polymath Design Lab, and I tried to write the post at least three times without getting anything sufficiently coherent to come together. Then I sat down to write an About page for the site and ended up putting together a pretty good summation: Continue Reading →