LilyPad
DIY eTextiles – Soundie, a musical touch-sensitive light-up hoodie
Kanjun Qiu created at the MIT Media Lab for the High-Low Tech research group the beautifully designed Soundie, a hoodie with touch sensitive areas triggering sound and light effects.
The Soundie is Kanjun’s exploration into eTextiles and the LilyPad system. The result is the Soundie, one of the best demonstrator/prototypes I have come across in my [...]
Power design for eTextiles
From a clothing designer point of view, the focus is on style and aesthetics. From an electronic engineer point of view, the power efficient circuit design is one of the keys between being a master or mediocre in this profession.
Designing electrical function with high power efficiency in mind minimizes the need of power, allowing to [...]
DIY – Emotional Scarf
Communicating clothing is one of the most interesting concepts in the interactive fashion domain and well taken care off especially by the eTextile DIY community.
Instructables member ArduinoFun has posted a inspirational project called ‘Arduino Lilypad Interactive Passion Sensing Scarf‘ using the LilyPad Arduino and conductive yarn to create the textile circuit into a scarf.
Naturally there [...]
e-textile DIY – touch-sensitive, musical light-up hoodie
A nicely designed e-textile DIY project from Instructables member Kanjun is the ‘musical touch-sensitive light-up hoodie‘.
This interactive hoodie changes it’s behavior – yeah, smart clothing will have it’s own character – depending on how charged you are.
Everyone has more or less body conductivity which is influenced by the environment. Humidity level, the material of our [...]
DIY wearable electronic – Sonar garment for the visually impaired
This weeks wearable electronic DIY project comes again from Lynne Bruning and is the best ever I have seen in the e-textile domain – just fabulous.
The story of her project, the ‘Sonar Garment‘: assisting visually impaired people by navigating through the world and alerting them when an object stands in their way.
The alerting is done [...]
DIY Wearable Electronic – LilyPad E-Sewing and Pro Kit
Sparkfun has bundled two versions of the famous and fabulous Wearable Electronic DIY system around Leah Buechley’s LilyPad Arduino e-textile system for the Do-It-Yourself enthusiasts.
You can check out the two LilyPad kits first hand during the Maker Fair which takes center-stage this weekend in Austin.
If you can it make to Austin you can (pre) [...]
