The Project Walkway shoes are on display at the ZER01 exhibition, and we’ll be doing a shoe hacking workshop at the Tech Museum of Innovation this weekend… please come by!

DIY Shoe Hacks and Audible Alarm Workshop with Norene Leddy, Andrew Milmoe and Melissa Gira

Where: On Chavez Plaza

Start time: 4pm

Length of workshop: 2 hours

Number of participants: 10 (if participants work in pairs, we can accommodate 20)

Recommended that participants under the age of 12 years, work with an adult

In a two-hour workshop, Norene Leddy and The Aphrodite Project Team will present a brief history of shoes, along with a description of Project Walkway (GYV micro-grant project with Eyebeam in NYC) and demos of shoe-hacks. We will show 2-3 versions of hacked sandals, and explain in detail how they were created. This will include ways to make casings for electronics, secret compartments, etc. A shoe hacking article, written by the team and published in Make magazine, with detailed instructions for doing more elaborate shoe hacks will also be handed out. Participants will then build their own personal audible alarm systems to use when physically threatened. The same alarm is embedded in the demo shoes, and can also be used in handbags, jackets and other clothing. This DIY alarm system uses inexpensive components and is easy to assemble (no soldering or special skills required).

Images of the audible alarm kits:
http://www.theaphroditeproject.tv/DIY/