DIY - Corner
Soft Circuit Saturdays
What better day than our ‘usual’ Saturday posting around DIY eTextile project to introduce ‘Soft Circuit Saturdays‘ from Angela Sheehan, who is organizing a DIY/Maker crafting group around soft circuits in New Hampshire/Boston area.
Angela discovered her interest into e-textiles, craft technology and wearable computing during her time at Bennington College.
Her research and interest led to [...]
Led-embedded dress
Canadian designer-artist Valérie Lamontagne founded 3lectromode with the vision of innovating in the field of wearables by combining technology with customizable prêt-â-porter fashion.
Valérie and her small design group is focusing on the development of accessible wearables combining state-of-the-art technology and current fashion research, creating designs that resonate with our everyday needs as well as being [...]
Smart sensing backpack with Aniomagic eTextile components
The folks over at Aniomagic have made a weight sensitive backpack. Note the emphasis is on weight sensitive and not weight sensing.
Using Aniomagic’s fabulous smart eTextile components and a force sensitive resistor you can create a cool light animation on any bag.
It won’t tell you how much weight you are lugging around – at least [...]
DIY soft electronics: Sew-through circuit board
Meredith Scheff, self proclaimed artist, writer, mechanic and fabricator posted a really cool design of a soft, sew-through circuit board using DuPont’s Pyralux Copper Clad Laminate, a very thin and flexible sheet of polyimide which has copper on one side.
If you are familiar with making your own PCBs you will know how to make [...]
DIY – Southpaw, measure distances with your hand
We have reported about the Northpaw by Sensebridge, an anklet that indicates the direction via vibration. Today’s DIY project introduction called ‘Southpaw‘ could be seen as complementing the directional wearable assistant by adding a distance detecting functionality to a glove.
Southpaw by Instructables member south_paw has a sonar range finder and a small LCD screen integrated. [...]
DIY – Frogr eTextile adaptor for the LilyPad
eTextile designer will love the Frogr, a creation of Angella Mackey and David McCallum. The Frogr is an adapter – called shield in Arduino terminology – give a higher degree of flexibility when creating multiple designs which require the LilyPad.
The LilyPad has to be sewn onto the textile circuit to make good contact. Creating a [...]
Sessile – twinkling starlight handbag
Grace Kim, a graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, currently working as Interaction Designer for Yahoo! created a beautiful handbag with sensibly stylish light animation, the Sessile Handbag.
The center stage is once again the LilyPad Arduino, a must have standard part for most if not all eTextile and soft technology designer.
A very sophisticated [...]
DIY – Weight sensing Tote Bag
Instructables member markaleung made one of those sensible wearable electronic concepts I love for their simplicity and sensibility in regard to the functionality offered: the Weight sensing Tote Bag.
Knowing the weight of a bag, especially when flying somewhere can be a question of how much money we have to shell out when in front of [...]
Email counting T-Shirt
Catching up with wearable electronic news I came across the email counting T-Shirt made by Chris Ball and his wife Madeline. It’s actually a DIY project we usually bring Saturdays but this one is so good – I can’t hold back that long.
This high tech T-Shirt will indicate in binary form via LEDs the number [...]
DIY – heating and cooling jacket
CU Boulder GEEN 1400 Engineering Costumes students Chris Francklyn, Diana George, Jenna Sobieray and Alex Cossoff posted a hot-cool project on Instructables, the ‘How to make a Heating and Cooling Jacket‘ project.
The jacket has the capability to sense the temperature inside the jacket and turning on the heating or cooling elements as needed to [...]
