Comments on: Debuting Our Early Wearables Kit

By: Maker Lab in the Humanities » University of Victoria » Bijoux Mécaniques

Fri, 11 Sep 2015 23:45:00 +0000

[…] illuminated jewels. (Nina and I had previously presented a version of the kit with a prototype of a light-up hairpin at the Western Humanities Alliance 2013 meeting at the University of California at San Diego, and […]

By: What I’m reading 16 Jul 2015 through 22 Jul 2015 | Morgan's Log

What I’m reading 16 Jul 2015 through 22 Jul 2015 | Morgan's Log — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 20:09:05 +0000

[…] [toread] [priv] Maker Lab in the Humanities » University of Victoria » Debuting Our Earl… – – (dh ) […]

By: Maker Lab in the Humanities » University of Victoria » Kits for Cultural History

Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:46:15 +0000

[…] During the 2013-14 academic year, early prototypes were developed for three different kits: an early wearables kit (on late 19th-century electric jewellery by Gustave Trouvé), an early video games kit (on William […]

By: Maker Lab in the Humanities » University of Victoria » Designing a Case for a Kit

Thu, 06 Nov 2014 18:50:32 +0000

[…] engineer, Gustave Trouvé, in the 1860s and ’80s. For example, we are making a light-up, filigree hair pin and a pocket pin with a skull gnashing its […]

By: Yes We Can. But Should We? (Cultural Heritage Edition) | Brandon Locke

Yes We Can. But Should We? (Cultural Heritage Edition) | Brandon Locke — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 04:30:45 +0000

[…] But I generally follow through by describing critical making and I tell them about UVic’s Early Wearables Kits and Devon Elliot’s work on magic. I always follow it up by telling them about all of the […]

By: Maker Lab in the Humanities » University of Victoria » The Kits for Cultural History at HASTAC 2014

Sat, 06 Sep 2014 17:39:29 +0000

[…] an example of what such a kit might look like, at HASTAC 2014 we described our early wearables kit, which is based on the electronic jewellery pieces created by the nineteenth-century French […]

By: Maker Lab in the Humanities » University of Victoria » MLab at IdeaFest: “Book Nerds in a Lab”

Tue, 20 May 2014 17:32:57 +0000

[…] History project to not only build a simple LED circuit but also learn more about the legacies of “wearable technologies.” During this demonstration, we’ll provide participants with the materials they need to make a […]

By: Maker Lab in the Humanities » University of Victoria » Building Trouvé’s Skull Stick-Pin

Tue, 20 May 2014 17:32:01 +0000

[…] the early wearables kit, the Maker Lab Team and I thought it would be interesting to recreate Trouvé’s skull […]

By: Maker Lab in the Humanities » University of Victoria » Cultural or Technological Determinism?

Tue, 20 May 2014 17:29:44 +0000

[…] While researching and developing the lab’s kits for cultural history, I have realized why the choice of physical materials is so important to the reconstruction of old technologies and historical mechanisms, such as Gustave Trouvé’s “electric jewels” (pictured below), which are part of our early wearables kit. […]