Projects We Love: Malware Gets a Makeover
Phillip Stearns turns malicious software into dreamy textiles.
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Featured projects
— DRL Racer4 Street Drone
—Glitch Textiles: The Honeypot Collection
—You Died: An Anthology of the Afterlife
—Fiasco: The Cinematic Game of Plans Gone Wrong
Transform computer viruses into textiles or become a master drone racer when you back these imaginative projects.
DRL Racer4 Street
By Drone Racing League
You’ve watched pilots race these powerful drones on ESPN, Sky Sports, and Disney XD, and maybe you’ve even faux-piloted them in the Drone Racing League’s online simulator. Now, the team plans to put one of their actual racing rigs in your hands.
Glitch Textiles: The Honeypot Collection
By Phillip David Stearns
Phillip David Stearns wants to make the concept of cybersecurity more concrete (and cozy). He’s transforming malicious software like computer viruses and Trojan horses into patterns for woven cotton blankets, scarves, and throw pillows.
You Died: An Anthology of the Afterlife
By Iron Circus Comics
Featuring award-winning and emerging cartoonists, this frank and honest exploration of what it means to be “death-positive” will share stories, myths, hopes, and suspicions about death, dying, and the great beyond.
Fiasco: The Cinematic Game of Plans Gone Wrong
By Bully Pulpit Games
Play through your own Coen brothers movie in the new, updated edition of this beloved tabletop game of ambition, poor impulse control, and capers gone wrong. Disaster awaits.
