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New eTextile DIY site – How to get what you want
Fitting nicely to the start of Open Softwear, a book/guide/project to help getting started with wearable electronic technologies, the launch of ‘How to get what you want‘ a website with the aim to be a comprehensible, accessible and maintainable reference resource for everything around eTextiles and wearable electronic offers information for the more advanced eTextile [...]
Open Softwear – a book about fashionable prototyping
Wearable electronic designer and crafter just got a new, fabulous source of information and inspiration from Open Softwear and it’s authors Tony Olsson, David Gaetano, Jonas Odhner, Samson Wiklund.
Open Softwear is a book about Arduino boards, conductive fabric, resistive thread, soft buttons, LEDs, and other things specifically targeted towards wearable electronic prototyping.
The eBook centeres around [...]
Weaving with Conductive Thread and LEDs
WeaveZine published an highly interesting article about Lynne Bruning’s e-textile weaving technique.
The article explains the advantage the weaving process provides over sewing with electrically conductive yarn.
A detailed description, illustrated with sketches and many photos, explains the use of the clasped-weft technique, a weaving technique Lynne found out to provide perfect conditions for integrating conductive [...]
e-textile DIY – tilt sensing bracelet
Hannah Perner-Wilson added a cute little DIY project to her growing Instructables collection: the Fabric & Bead Tilt Sensing Bracelet.
What does the bracelet do? It is decorated with six conductive fabric petals and a thread of beads with a metal bead at the end.
Designed to make (electrical) contact when the metal bead is inside one [...]
Paper electronic
Textile electronic hasn’t left it’s infancy state yet but there is already another electronic revolution on the horizon in form of Paper electronic.
Leah Buechley who is one of the main driving sources in the e-textile innovation not least with her creation of the LilyPad system has reached out to paper substrate.
Adapting the LilyPad concept and [...]
Wearable Electronic DIY – a Blinking Fashion Statement
A recent article by Charlie Foster for Forbes.com about the wearable electronic DIY movement describes the ‘cross over point’ between the ‘boy’s only’ club of silicon based tinkering and the ‘arts-and-crafts’ community traditionally a more feminine domain.
The marriage of tech and fashion opens the doors for crafters to learn how to solder and tinkerers to [...]
DIY – Firefly Baby Booties
A cute little DIY project from Portuguese couple Ana Pires and João Silva demonstrates how to make a first wearable electronic outfit for your little one – Firefly Booties.
The fireflies on the Baby Booties are lit up with an LED powered by a hidden CR2016 lithium battery. You can find very detailed instructions on how [...]
DIY high tech glove – Clove 2
High tech gloves do get a lot of attention lately as you might have seen on our blog. Each of those ideas address, or try to address, different aspects of our daily life to make our lives more convenient or improve the work environment.
Christopher Mitchell created the Clove 2 glove concept which is attacking text [...]
Fashioning Technology: A DIY Introduction to Smart Crafting
Technology and crafting is a fast growing field judging on the many workshops and books that have been or will be released soon, helping all the ’smart crafters’ to get started and inspired.
The latest addition to our wearable electronic library comes from Syuzi Pakchyan: Fashioning Technology: A DIY Intro to Smart Crafting
Written for a broad [...]
DIY – Turn Signal Biking Jacket from Leah Buechley
Leah Buechley published teaser photos of her turn signal jacket a few month ago but no description on how she did it. The wait is over, Leah posted an extensive DIY description on her Website and on Instructables.
As with all other projects Leah has published on her site, everything you need to build your [...]
