Diana Eng, HAM radio ambassador & e-fashion designer – 24 hours of Lady Ada Lovelace day #ald10
Each hour we are featuring a woman we admire who is currently doing amazing work right in the tech/maker/art/science space. Woman of the hour, Diana Eng.
Diana Eng is a fashion designer who specializes in technology, math, and science. Her designs range from inflatable clothing to fashions inspired by the mechanical engineering of biomimetics. At 22, her inflatable dress (cocreated with Emily Albinski) made the cover of ID Magazine. In 2005, she was a designer on season 2 of the Emmy nominated hit TV show, Project Runway. She won Yahoo Hack Day in 2006 along with her two-team mates for designing and creating a blogging purse in less than 24 hours. She has worked as an assistant designer in research & development at Victoria’s Secret. She is the author of Fashion Geek: Clothes, Accessories, Tech. Her work has been featured in exhibits both in the U.S. and internationally around the globe, and has graced the pages of such publications as Women’s Wear Daily, Wired, and Craft Magazine. Diana is Make’s ham radio correspondent. Diana currently designs in the NYC fashion industry and is a founding member of Brooklyn based hacker group NYC Resistor.
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I had the chance to meet her at a QRP ham radio conference a couple weeks ago (She won a pretty nifty door prize). Joe Taylor K1JT (author of several open source radio software packages) gave a talk about very interesting, weak signal, digital communication modes.
Smart? Check. Pretty? Check. Celebrity crush on her? Check and double-check. No offense intended.
Forget the girl, I have a crush on that antenna! Ping-ping! That thing is DIRECTIONAL!
I had the chance to meet her at a QRP ham radio conference a couple weeks ago (She won a pretty nifty door prize). Joe Taylor K1JT (author of several open source radio software packages) gave a talk about very interesting, weak signal, digital communication modes.