Rachel's Makerpix

Rachel's Makerpix She is on a mission to help LEGO fans everywhere get the most out of their bricks.

Elmhurst organization offering lighting products for LEGO online; meetups for LEGO fans, and maker workshops to teach adults and families how to create interactive, programmable displays out of LEGO bricks and other affordable materials. Rachel Hellenga is a LEGO/LED artist, maker, and inventor creating joy through interactive LEGO installations that incorporate light, sound, motion, beauty, and s

torytelling. She holds two patents for a system for lighting LEGO with LED and conductive tape. Rachel is the founder of Electric Mosaic, a member of two Chicago-area makerspaces (Workshop 88 and Pumping Station One), and a member of the Association of Science-Technology Centers. She holds workshops and is establishing an online academy to teach professionals, families, and hobbyists how to how to design museum-quality interactive displays using affordable toys and materials.

Conductive tape + LEDs + LEGO = circuits with personality
03/10/2019

Conductive tape + LEDs + LEGO = circuits with personality

Love this "Cute doesn't win games" T-shirt chosen by a 7-year-old shopper at Kohl's Good taste! And kudos to Mom forbuyi...
08/02/2014

Love this "Cute doesn't win games" T-shirt chosen by a 7-year-old shopper at Kohl's Good taste! And kudos to Mom forbuying and to Kohl's for selling it. Let's build a healthy ecosystem for strong smart girls.

For everyone who believes there is more to science education than rockets and robots, I wanted to share instructions for...
02/15/2014

For everyone who believes there is more to science education than rockets and robots, I wanted to share instructions for a duct tape "electric rose" I invented with a teenager named Hana at the New York Maker Faire. Make magazine featured it for Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day! http://makezine.com/2014/02/14/make-a-duct-tape-electric-rose/

A rose is a rose, unless it's duct tape, electric LED rose.

Here's a pic from my maker process on the train home from a meeting with Chicago Public Library. I was already ripping t...
07/25/2013

Here's a pic from my maker process on the train home from a meeting with Chicago Public Library. I was already ripping things apart and repurposing them. I thought of Maker Liz Neely who presented at DuPage Children's Museum and mentioned "making" as part of her traain ride and showed us her Tweet Dress, which she had already cannibalized for parts. This pic is an insider view of the E-textiles circuit I hid behind a fireworks image on the duct tape pencil case. (Fireworksmore duct tape, with a 1/8 inch hole punched to reveal the led.F

Black duct tape bracelet with silver tape cut on a vinyl cutter, beginnings of a tiara for :alloween princesses (poster ...
07/25/2013

Black duct tape bracelet with silver tape cut on a vinyl cutter, beginnings of a tiara for :alloween princesses (poster board cut with a vinyl cutter), and a dual duty purse/pencil case with one discreet little pink led in the middle of pink fireworks. Tuck the black duct tape straps inside to make it a pencil case. Leave them out and snap on a duct tape strap to make it a purse. Then, remember to thank all the folks at the Workshop 88 hacker space for amazing amounts of help. Thanks guys!

What a great range of inspiring stories from women in technology who span the range from no-fuss to frilly clothes and m...
07/23/2013

What a great range of inspiring stories from women in technology who span the range from no-fuss to frilly clothes and manicures. As a woman in computer science you could find yourself the only woman in a class of 120 students, many of whom have been coding since they were 12. So hooray for Maker Education for funding the e-textiles class to get 8-10-year-olds sewing microcontrollers and LEDs into blinky backpacks!

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