Category: Components
ProtoSnap – LilyPad E-Sewing Kit
Sparkfun is continuously expanding their eTextile portfolio to the delight of many eTextile sewing, stitching, knitting, weaving and soldering fashion hackers. The latest addition is the ProtoSnap LilyPad E-Sewing Kit, a card that contains a LilyPad Coin cell Battery holder, [...]
eTextile treasure chest: Kit-of-No-Parts
Hannah Perner-Wilson, currently working on her masters degree in the High-Low Tech research group at the MIT Media Lab, started the Kit-of-No-Parts project, a Website that presents easy to access information about ‘electronics crafting’. I like the term ‘electronics crafting’, [...]
DIY eTextiles – Sewable Disc Button
Sewable eTextile Buttons are the creation of ClothBot Designs using the unique service of Shapeways. The Sewable Disc Button is designed with diagonal thru-holes in the pegs for sewing conductive thread and has at it’s center a hole straight through [...]
LumiNet – an organic, interactive, wearable computing network
Wearable technologists are familiar with the LilyPad Arduino developed by Leah Buechley. LilyPad is the first choice when electro-textile designer look for some number crunching application, be it to control light or coordinate sensor inputs and convert them for light [...]
DIY wearable electronic – LED Bead Jig
The portability for eTextile enthusiasts for the need of sewable LEDs is very high as almost everyone I know off will make at one point illuminated details in their designs. Getting sewable LEDs can be a challenge especially if you [...]
North Skirt
Soft electronic innovator Meredith Scheff, we posted about her Sew-through circuit board, showed her latest creation the North-Skirt during the eTextile Fashion Show @ Maker Faire in May. Based on the North-Paw kit from Sensebridge and her newly developed StarBoards, [...]
DIY – surface sound speaker
We receive frequently emails from the wearable electronic community asking about speakers suitable to be integrated into garments or bags. My first choice for doing this would be the surface sound technology from NXT which is used for the soft, [...]
