Category: DIY – articles
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
