Hoodie with a light up monster face. Made with EL wire at TAPlab. Halloween isn't far away and you may be starting to think about costumes. EL wire (electroluminescent wire) is a really easy way to light up your costume and requires no experience with electronics. You...
Over two weekends, we ran some workshops for people to build Mother's Day cards with a bit of a difference- an electronic difference. Paper circuits are made using normal paper and card and conductive copper tape. The tape is adhesive and can be stuck onto the card to...
We’ve recently been running some very popular simple wearable workshops at TAP:lab. Simply put, wearable technology is any device that can be worn by a person. While people have created incredibly elaborate costumes as forms of art or self-expression, we’ve started...
Andrew held another popular 2 hour workshop for beginners on how to use TinkerCAD. Starting from basic principles of viewing and manipulating objects in the the design area, the group followed along and designed a pencil stopper. Additive and subtractive combinations...