News

20081104 - INKED; tattoo book that my 8" ruler forearm tattoo is featured in.

20081014 - A local paper in Truth or Consequences does a story on our projects at Holy Scrap Hot Springs. Includes Rain Water Harvesting, PV Solar, food growing, grease car, and alternative building with our papercrete / ferrocement hybrid.

20080804 - A 2008 grand tour of Holy Scrap Hot Springs premises.

20080429 - Discovery Channel Canda released a feature on me as a New Mexico Inventor on their show Daily Planet.

20080220 - A local paper in Truth or Consequences called "The Herald" covers my diesel Mercedes grease conversion in their free quarterly "Chaparral Guide" "Mikey Sklar And His Cool Grease Car"

20070601 - A local paper in Truth or Consequences called "The Sentinel" covers our papercrete insulation and fence work. (pg. 1) (pg. 2)

20070426 - Old Mobile Goes Green by vloggers Jay and Ryan of ryanishungry. Wendy and myself discussing how we converted a 40 year old trailer to our home.

20070422 - Green Pioneers Interview by vloggers Jay and Ryan of ryanishungry. Wendy and myself discussing how we started Green Acre.

20070223 - Steppin Out New Mexico StoryCovers our eco-lodge project along with a band Wendy had been promoting called "HuDost" pdf.

20061119 - Make Magazine Story "Making IT" about my move from NYC cubicle slave to TorC inventor / green builder.

20061107 - Solar Power Problems - A story I wrote about why Solar Power is a bad deal for your pocket and the environment.

20061031 - The Paper Problem - A story I wrote about why people should stop recycling paper and start thinking about how to reuse it.

20061101 - Industrial Nanotech (Nansulate) has a PR story about green building in Truth or Consequences. It mentions my plans to use their product in the bed and breakfast we have been building.

20060928 - Make picked up a series on Technical Video Rental customers being interviewed.

200608xx - The High-Lighter appears at Burningman.

200608xx - Boing Boing Piece After submitting a story to Make Magazine of my dropping out of cubicle life to become a full time inventor Mark Fraunfelder was nice enough to blog a entry on the trampoline.

200608xx - The High-Lighter appears at Burningman.

200608xx - The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart Samantha B interviews me...If you can call it a interview.

200605xx - Flame Effects Blog started by me. A crude attempt to document all the fire art I can find.

200604xx - The High-Lighter appears at Maker Faire.

200604xx - First fire based electronics project completed. The device is a trampoline which spits fireballs based on how hard someone jumps. I call it "The High-Lighter".

200603xx - Moved to Truth or Consequneces, New Mexico to become a full time inventor.

200601xx - Lots of press from DIY RFID Implant. Quit eight year job on Wall Street.

20051229 - Boing Boing , Make , Digg and hackaday have picked up on my upcoming DIY RFID implant talk for NYC dorkbot. Jonny Goldstein also provided a interview of me from a recently slumber party at my Brooklyn loft.

20051220 - I have a upcoming dorkbot talk on Wednesday, January 4th at 7pm probably at location1. The talk is titled "DIY RFID Implants" and I have posted a 9MB PDF of my slides. Note several of the slides are actually video, so you will get a richer experience if you can actually make the talk.

20051208 - Make: magazine has recently released a new hardcover book called "Makers: The Book"The fan shirt I had made in the summer of 2002 is listed there, and I also made their Blog as "Maker of the day"shortly after the book announcement.

20051029 - Make: vol.04 contains a story called "Microcontroller Programming" written by SparkleLabs. I have a small orange box on open source tools for working with Microchip PIC hardware.

20051021 - I was fortunate to have some great blog coverage from the RFID Pocket project. To name a few: RFID Weblog We Make Money Not Art Gizmodo Makezine hackaday

20051008 - Swap-O-Rama-Rama will take place tomorrow in NYC's East Village at CSV. I will be speaking about RFID Pocket Replacement at 5pm.

20050728 - 21F Gathering - Parsons Design Lab, 55 W 13th St. 9th floor. Thursday, July 28th at 7pm. I will be speaking about how not to create wearables along with Megyn Bruder who will be showing her work.

20050723 - In order to use the sexy ATtiny2313 20pin AVR MCU with built-in UART and dual PWM I had to upgrade some of the development tools. avr-gcc, avr-binutils, and avr-libc have all been updated on my tools page. .

20050701 - My story on howto make aGlowing, Wearable, EL-Wire, Blinky Light using Open Source Tools Make: Magazine Story.

20050627 - Full update of PIC, AVR, Schematic, and layout tools for Mac OS X fink packages posted to my tools page.

20050505 - Parsons Class "Flocking" talk on Mac OS X microcontroller development.

20050414 - Parsons Class "Flocking" one hour talk on some of the pitfalls of working with wearables. Using my own projects as examples.

20040514 - Last Friday CBS reported on my EL Ring Bag Dan Dubno covered it in his Gizmorama segment that aired that morning. There is a Multimedia tab in addition to the text article on the right side of the page which includes the broadcast.

20040411 - Last Wednesday I presented at the NYC Dorkbot monthly meeting. The slides above are what I showed, and here are some pictures that Wendy took during the presentation. There are a few more pictures over here that Douglas took.

20040327 - I've already presented the electric-clothing talk I plan to give to dorkbot in April at the LESMUUG meeting earlier this week. There is a total of 110 slides and I am providing them in two formats electric-clothing-talk PDF 7.4MB and electric-clothing-talk Quicktime 1.4MB.

20040307 - The next Lower East Side MAC Unix Users Group meeting is Thursday, March 25th. I will be presenting my electronic clothing projects. This talk should be very similiar to the Dorkbot talk. I removed the previous movie on my past electronic clothing projects that was on my website. I have now made a new smaller, lower quality movie. Its is available as quicktime (3MB).

20040305 - Next NYC Dorkbot is April 7th, 2004 (thats a Wednesday). I will be presenting my electric clothing. There could be a flat-el project that uses conductive thread in there. I just had some success tonight making a LED glow using a foot of conductive thread instead of standard copper wire.

20040201 - Lots of progress has been made over the last week. I've made or gathered up many unsubmitted fink configurations for Mac OS/X EDA, and microcontroller development tools. My switch from PIC microcontroller development to AVR development on OS/X has made some progress. I've built and packaged all the utilities I should need and made those configurations available. Also in my tools link. Like the new webpage?

Mikey Sklar

sklarm__at__electric-clothing.com