Components
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 [...]
e-Textile programming with light: Aniomagic Button-schemer
Nwanua Elumeze from Aniomagic keeps on amazing me with extraordinary smart and simple e-textile components.
The newest addition to the e-textile treasure chest: Button-schemer, an ambient program reader the size of a nickel which is programmable with specially timed flashes of light.
Hold it in front of your computer screen, PDA, iPod Touch or iPhone, in fact [...]
e-textile DIY – light up your clothing
Our e-textile DIY project tip for this weekend has been around for more than a year on Instructables posted by Enlighted the company that is producing and selling a wide range of illuminated clothing and other fashion items.
There are two highly interesting aspects I found in the ‘Color-Changing Lighted Faux Fur Scarf‘ instruction: the use [...]
e-textile DIY – pressure sensor matrix
Hyper active e-textile DIY instruction creator Hannah Perner-Wilson aka Intructables user Plusea posted another simple to follow but highly interesting and useful project, the Pressure Sensor Matrix.
As her many other e-textile DIY instructions, the materials used are relatively easy to get, in this project an Arduino is needed to process the signals coming from the [...]
e-textile DIY material
Getting e-textile materials is still not a s easy as conventional crafting materials like for example thread.
Syuzi Pakhchyan, an expert in smart crafting, has posted on her blog Fashioning Technology a great overview of commercially available, electrically conductive threads together with information on the positive and negative aspects for each of them.
Conductive threads are the [...]
DIY – conductive thread
Conductive thread is one of the key elements for e-textile crafting but it seems sometimes difficult for people to get their hands on commercially available conductive thread. This Instructables might be a good starting point to get aspiring e-textile crafters started.
For the thread material only two ingredient’s are needed: fine cotton thread and very fine [...]
Neon Trim lights up your wardrobe
Want to add some sparkle to your wardrobe, cushions or bags? Neon Trim has a wide selection of soft, flexible Neon wires for DIY enthusiasts to add light elements to clothing and more.
The site is full of information about how EL (Electroluminescent) wires work and how to use them. Getting the next rocking stage wear [...]
DIY – Textile battery holder
Aniomagic, creator of many cute e-textile components seems has taken up my remark in one of my posts about the cute little battery holder and included into their online store for e-textile DIY enthusiasts.
Unlike the other components Aniomagic is selling on their online store, the cute battery holders need to be assembled by yourself but [...]
New DIY wearable electronic modules from Studio 5050
Studio 5050, a creative collective in the wearable electronic space, is preparing the launch of a set of e-textile modules which can help DIY enthusiasts, designer and students to work on their interactive fashion without the need of spending too much time on electronic development.
During the past few years, Studio 5050 developed remarkable interactive [...]
