Textile Circuit
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 [...]
Inspirational DIY e-textile sewing – wearable musical interfaces
This Saturday Zurich / Switzerland will see Hannah Perner Wilson and Mika Satomi unfolding their experience in creating interactive clothing during the workshop ‘Sew your own wearable musical interface’ which is part of the event ‘diy* — Art and Technology Festival‘ .
As appetizer for workshop participants Hannah and Mika published the project details of this workshop on their [...]
DIY wearable electronic: multilayer e-textile circuit board
Instructables member Lynne Bruning has been very busy the last 2 days designing unique concepts on how to ‘hide’ or integrate conductive thread into needle work materials like wool, fusible fibers, fabric tubes and fabric patches fused together.
You have to check out all of them as they are very inspirational and as Lynne states in [...]
DIY wearable electronic – temperature sensing tapestry
Another cool – or should I say hot – DIY project using e-textile technologies surfaced on Instructables by user craft-tech.
The e-textile materials and components used come for base material Aniomagic which has a nice range of simple to use e-textile components including very smart little sensors for light, temperature and one to be programmed to [...]
Wearable electronic DIY project – Motion-Capture Costume
This week we introduce one of the most complex but also most advanced wearable electronic DIY instructions we have seen: the Puppeteer Motion-Capture Costume developed by Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson, two ladies we had an interview earlier this year about this and other projects they are collaborating on.
The idea behind Puppeteer is to create [...]
DIY project: Soft-circuit LED Bracelet
Keep it simple yet effective is the tag-line of the DIY project ‘Soft-circuit LED Bracelet‘ available for inspiration and do-it-yourself production by Instructables.com
The creator of the instructable, REACTIVEFashion, shows a quick and easy way how to make a sparkling fabric bracelet without the need of a solder iron.
The bracelet is build in a similar to [...]
e-textile kit – DIY Wearable Electronic with Leah Buechley
Talking about Do-It-Yourself in Wearable Electronics means talking about the work of Leah Buechley. She is the Master of e-textiles and created over the last few years a exiting range of ideas, designs and DIY instructions for e-textiles.
Leah introduced a construction kit for electronic textiles in spring 2006. A set of stitchable controllers, sensors and [...]
Textile Electronic – the Soft Circuit Board
Starting our DIY Wearable Electronic series, we introduce you first to another outstanding expert and promoter of Textile Electronic, Mouna Andraos.
Mouna created, based on inspirations from Leah Buechley, a platform for everyone to learn from her technique to combine electronic and textiles. Her work is presented on electroniccraft.org from where we have taken the following [...]
