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Practical Fashion Tech: Wearable Technologies for Costuming, Cosplay, and Everyday 1st ed. Edition

by Lyn Hoge (Author), Rich Cameron (Author)

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Pull back the curtain on making fun and innovative costumes and accessories incorporating technologies like low-cost microprocessors, sensors and programmable LEDs.

Fashion tech can require skills in design, pattern-making, sewing, electronics, and maybe 3D printing. Besides the tech skills, making a good costume or accessory also requires knowledge of the intangibles of what makes a good costume. This bookis a collaboration between two technologists and a veteran teacher, costumer, and choreographer. Regardless of whether you are coming at this from the theater costuming, sewing, or electronics side, the authors will help you get started with the other skills you need.

More than just a book of projects (although it has those too), Practical Fashion Tech teaches why things are done a certain way to impart the authors’ collective wealth of experience. Whether you need a book for a wearable tech class or you just want to get started making fantastic costumes and wearables on your own, Practical Fashion Tech will get you there.

What you will learn:

The fundamentals of both the sewing and the technology aspects of wearable tech for fashion
How to make a memorable costume that reacts to its wearer or environment
Ideas for using this book as a textbook

Who this is for:
Electronics enthusiasts, hipsters, costume designers, teachers, and students who want to learn how to make fashion or cosplay wearables. Cosplay fans wanting to incorporate sensors and more into their costumes.

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1484216636
ISBN-13

978-1484216637
Edition

1st ed.
Publisher

Apress
Publication date

September 21, 2016
Language

English
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6.1 x 0.66 x 9.25 inches
Print length

290 pages
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Practical Fashion Tech is the result of a collaboration between two technologists and a veteran teacher, costumer, and choreographer. They came together to pull back the curtain on making fun and innovative costumes and accessories incorporating technologies like low-cost microprocessors, sensors and programmable LEDs.
Fashion tech can require skills in design, pattern-making, sewing, electronics, programming, and 3D printing. Besides the tech skills, making a good costume or accessory also requires knowledge of the intangibles of what makes a good costume. Regardless of whether you are coming at this from the theater costuming, sewing, or electronics side, this book will help you get started with the other skills you need.
More than just a book of projects (although it has those too), Practical Fashion Tech teaches why things are done a certain way to impart the authors’ collective wealth of experience. Whether you need a book for a wearable tech class or you just want to get started making fantastic costumes and wearables on your own, Practical Fashion Tech will get you there.

About the Author

As an engineer and management consultant, Joan Horvath has coordinated first-of-a-kind interdisciplinary technical and business projects, helping people with no common vocabulary (startups, universities, small towns, etc). work together. Her experience as a systems engineer has spanned software development, spacecraft flight operations, risk management, and spacecraft/ground system test and contingency planning. As an educator, Joan’s passion is bringing science and technology to the non-specialist in a comprehensible and entertaining way that will stay with the learner for a lifetime.

Rich Cameron is a cofounder of Pasadena-based Nonscriptum LLC. Nonscriptum consults for educational and scientific users in the areas of 3D printing and maker technologies. Rich (known online as “Whosawhatsis”) is an experienced open source developer who has been a key member of the RepRap 3D-printer development community for many years. His designs include the original spring/lever extruder mechanism used on many 3D printers, the RepRap Wallace, and the Deezmaker Bukito portable 3D printer. By building and modifying several of the early open source 3D printers to wrestle unprecedented performance out of them, he has become an expert at maximizing the print quality of filament-based printers. When he's not busy making every aspect of his own 3D printers better, from slicing software to firmware and hardware, he likes to share that knowledge and experience online so that he can help make everyone else’s printers better too.
Lyn Hoge has been a dance teacher, costumer, and choreographer for over 40 years. In that time, she has designed and created costumes for musicals, plays and various types of dance performances. These include everything from simple period costume plays like Our Town to elaborate and quirky versions of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Bat Boy the Musical. Lyn has also created unique and functional designs for everything from the T-Rex and Wooly Mammoth in The Skin of Our Teeth to still walkers at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In the past couple of years, she has been delving into the world of wearable tech and recently started writing about her experiences as a teacher and student. Lyn has a BA in dance and has studied at UCLA, UC Irvine, and at many private studios.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 1st ed. edition (September 21, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 290 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1484216636
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1484216637
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.82 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 0.66 x 9.25 inches

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Joan Horvath
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Ms. Horvath is the co-founder (with Rich Cameron) of Nonscriptum LLC (www.nonscriptum.com), a technology consulting and training company based in Pasadena. Nonscriptum consults for educational and scientific users in the areas of 3D printing and maker technologies, and develops hands-on STEM curriculum using those technologies. She has been adjunct faculty at the university level in a variety of institutions both in Southern California and online. Prior to that, she has held a variety of positions, including Vice President of Business Development at Deezmaker 3D printers . Before becoming an entrepreneur she spent sixteen years at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she worked in programs including the technology transfer office, the Magellan spacecraft to Venus and the TOPEX/Poseidon oceanography spacecraft. She holds an undergraduate degree from MIT in Aeronautics and Astronautics, and an engineering Master's degree from UCLA.
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Rich Cameron
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Rich Cameron (known online as “Whosawhatsis”) is a consultant on 3D printing and maker technologies. Rich is an experienced open-source developer who has been a key member of the RepRap printer development community for many years. His designs include the original spring/lever extruder mechanism, the Reprap Wallace, and the Deezmaker Bukito portable 3D printer. By building and modifying several of the early open source 3d printers to wrestle unprecedented performance out of them, he has become an expert at maximizing the print quality of filament-based printers. When he's not busy making every aspect of his own 3d printers better, from slicing software to firmware and hardware, he likes to share that knowledge and experience online so that he can help make everyone else's printers better too.
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Lyn Hoge
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Lyn Hoge has been a dance teacher, costumer, and choreographer for over 40 years. In that time, she has designed and created costumes for musicals, plays and various types of dance performances. These include everything from simple period costume plays like Our Town to elaborate and quirky versions of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Bat Boy the Musical. Lyn has also created unique and functional designs for everything from the T-Rex and Woolly Mammoth in The Skin of Our Teeth to stilt walkers at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In the past couple of years, she has been delving into the world of wearable tech and is writing about her experiences as a teacher and a student. Lyn has a BA in dance and has studied at UCLA, UCI, and at many private studios.
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Focused on skills and projects for costumers and cosplayers

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2016

A fashion tech book that is focused on skills and projects for costumers and cosplayers. It would make a good one stop resource for both beginning and more advanced sewers. If you only want to buy one book to work on your costumes and your wearable electronics, this would be an excellent choice, it has a lot of information and is comparable in price to similar books. This book is packed with a lot information, starting with the very basics of how to plan and sew costumes. It is almost a combination of sewing instruction, costumers' handbook, and fashion tech book. There are a number of projects both using basic skills and progressing to more complex; including the Mondrian dress that is on the cover. I've read a lot of similar books with electronic projects and this one has new and interesting ones that I have not seen in other books or on the internet. The print and photos are not as fancy and glossy as those from other publishers, and the paper could be better quality. This publisher seems to have a number of related books on wearable tech, arduino projects, etc. that may also be interesting to fashion designers and costumers. I met the book authors at World Maker Faire in NYC (October 2, 2016), and got the book directly from them at the event.

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As A Huge Fan of Project Runway....

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2016

As a huge fan of Project Runway — and Halloween — I’d recommend this book for anyone who wants to “make it work” for their own garments. It’s a great jumping off point for creative fashion. We’re already seeing technology in designer gowns on the red carpet. This book makes the process accessible for design students and DIY fashionistas to push boundaries. Can Arduino turn you into Valentino? Soft goods enhanced with hardware, what could be more innovative for today’s fashion forward fans? My favorite designs in the book — The Kinematics Dresses — simply stunning 3D printed works of art. Inspired by innovation, yet practical enough to alleviate intimidation, a great how-to book.

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