Category: Components
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
