Textile Circuit
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 [...]
Textile Prefboard
The eTextile toolbox just got a big addition in form of Plug and Wear’s Textile Prefboard, courtesy of my creative friend Riccardo.
Prefboards are used by electronic wizards to quickly put together a circuit during development and for testing. Needless to say – this is one of the most essential parts in their toolbox.
Riccardo picked up [...]
Soft circuit techniques
Triggered by Jennifer Dopazo’s short presentation posting on Fashioning Technology about the process of fabricating an ‘iron on textile PCB’, I looked around to see what options the eTextile designer has when it comes to softening up the electronic world.
If you every wondered how a textile PCB can be made, flip through the presentation below. [...]
e_Static Shadows – textile display visualizes electro static
‘e-Static Shadows‘ is a research project by designer Dr. Zane Berzina and architect Jackson Tan which creatively explores the speculative and poetic potential of static electricity found in our everyday environments, surrounding our everyday interactions.
The aim of the project is to investigate how electrostatic energy could either be effectively utilized or play a part in [...]
e-Textile beginners guide: How to Sew with Conductive Thread with Diana Eng
Threadbanger, a network for people who love DIY, recreate, refashion and craft, posted a video and Instructables showing Fashion Nerd Diana Eng teaching the basics of ‘How to Sew with Conductive Thread‘ on the project ‘Robot and Friend’ from her book ‘Fashion Geek‘.
The materials needed for this e-textile beginners guide are easy to organize: [...]
DIY – Stretchy Conductive Fabric Traces
e-Textile designer working with electrically conductive traces in fabrics face sometimes the problem of elasticity, or to be more precise – the lack of elasticity of stitched traces which is sometimes a important factor when it comes to ‘electrifying’ clothing.
Nadya Peek, the creator of the wonderfully made ‘Clickable Dress’ Caché developed a method to transform [...]
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 – Sensing Bracelet
Plusea has added another of her highly inspirational and very detailed e-textile instructions to her ever growing Instructables library, the ‘Time Sensing Bracelet‘
The Time Sensing Bracelet is a circular fabric potentiometer where a fictive time can be set by making contact in the corresponding position.
Plusea points out ‘There is no point to it but fun.‘ [...]
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 e-textiles crafting for beginners with StitchLits
Artist-Researcher-Educator Kate Hartman, currently an adjunct faculty member at New York University teaching courses in soft circuitry and physical computing created a cute little tool box targeted towards novices in e-textile crafting.
She made her DIY kit called ‘StichLits‘ available on Etsy which contains everything needed to create a first ‘electrified’ crafting project for clothing, bags [...]
