Components
DIY – eTextile cable knitting
Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson beamed up at ‘How to get what you want‘ a nice technique on how to create eTextile cables that provide a new way of designing cable connections for a wearable electronic design.
The cable are knitted using a tube knitting technique with many names like ‘French knitting’, ‘Spool knitting’, ‘Corking’ and [...]
DIY – stylish conductive fabric
Creating stylish conductive fabric is easier then you might think, assuming you follow the fabulous instruction from Lynne Bruning on her Instructables.
Lynne keeps on adding creative ideas on how to electrify textiles. Her Instructables collection is full of tips, excellent documented with material resources, written and photo guides to make the process as easy and [...]
Wearable electronic DIY kits from Aniomagic
The magic keeps coming from Aniomagic as they have redesigned their flagship Schemer™ letting ‘ordinary’ electronic components look like jewels. You can chose to hide them or show off these eTextile components in your wearable electronic designs, either way will lead you to gorgeous looking interactive fashion objects.
Aniomagic’s latest Schemer™ version allows to connect to [...]
DIY – Fabric Display
Fabric Light-Bright is an amazing textile display project from Eli Skipp of Pumping Station One, a first class hacking community in Chicago.
I have never seen before such a simple yet highly unique eTextile design. Simple in it’s functionality as described by Eli but highly expendable and wide open for upgrading to more complex functionality.
What [...]
DIY – EL wire trimming
Today’s wearable electronic DIY tip comes from Riccardo (Plug and Wear) and shows how to cut and trim EL (Electro Luminescent) wires in the correct way so you won’t have to compromise with standard length EL wires for your textile illumination projects.
EL wires require inverters to light up and to connect them to the inverter [...]
Have you already upgraded your jacket to version 2.0?
Finally there is a solution available for everyone who want’s to upgrade his / her favorite piece of clothing to technology enabled Fashion 2.0 to play in sync with the many electronic lifestyle items in our pockets: iPhone or BT cellphone or iPod.
A company called RNK Distributing is marketing a product called the ‘My Sew [...]
Illuminating the Darkness with DIY beadwork
Artist Laura Cesari, creator of the Fire Skirt we have posted about earlier keeps on adding glowing objects to her creative portfolio to illuminate the darkness around us.
At Caballera.com she has posted DIY instructions for Glow Beadwork, demonstrating how the merge of beads and LEDs can create a magical style detail on clothing of fashion [...]
Soft Keypad developer Kit from Fibretronic
Fibretronic released a developer kit of their ConnectedWear keypad technology for designer and DIY enthusiasts alike.
The Kit contains a five function keypad in linear shape, typically used for a remote control, the Joysick control pad with 5 functions as well, a highly interesting electronic tester for the keypad and a hang-tag to let your experimental, [...]
LED Resistance Calculator for your pocket
The Evil Mad Scientist’s at their Laboratories have created a cute business sized card version of an LED Resistance Calculator, taking these calculators off-line and into your pocket.
As eTextile crafters use frequently LEDs I thought to beam up this DIY project for all those (including myself) who end up in front of rows of [...]
DIY Solar Power from Voltaic
Good news for DIY enthusiasts: more and more companies offer components from their product portfolio for DIY projects making it easy to explore their latest technologies.
Voltaic, well known as pioneer of solar power bags has added a DIY Solar Project Site offering solar panels, battery packs and a huge selection of connectors (it’s shocking to [...]
