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If you are working on a cool DIY Wearable Electronic project and want to add some bling to it, check out the latest Wearable Electronic DIY module from Aniomagic called the ‘mimeolight‘.

This module must be one of the easiest ways to add some magic light effects to your electronic craft projects with customizable blinking patterns.

Aim a flashlight or wave your hands in front of it and it will record and repeat those patterns.

To get mimeolight’s attention flash a light source 3 times within a second over it and it will blinking 4 times rapidly showing you that it got your attention. Flash your pattern and when you are done let it do it’s magic by playing back your pattern. That’s all there is to it.

The idea for the mimeolight was inspired by Alex Weber’s Programmable LED Instructables project and by research at the Craft Technology Lab.

Get a couple of them and play around, each costs just $10.- available by Aniomagic where you can find other Wearable Electronic DIY materials as well.

The only thing you need to do is sew it to a 3 or 5 volt power source (like a button cell battery) and you got a unique and interactive bracelet or T-Shirt decoration or a bit of a personal touch on your bag or - there are no limits to your creativity.

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Leah Buechley the Innovator and Creator of the most advanced e-textile kit, the LilyPad Arduino, keeps on surprising the world with new ideas fusing electronic and clothing.

Her latest work a turn signal biking jacket is an excellent example how e-textiles can add high value to ‘conventional’ clothing.

Safety and visibility while cycling in low light and night condition is a cause of great suffering around the world.

Improving the visibility of cyclists is a big business but a real good solution is far from available.

Almost all products in the market use reflective materials, they only ‘light up’ when light hits this material.

Active light like EL or LED, the later have more light power, increase the visibility greatly.

Integrating LEDs in clothing and use them to indicate the change of direction of a bicycle rider increases tremendously the visibility and with it the road safety of cyclists.

Leah’s Cycling Jacket is based on her LilyPad Arduino, some LEDs and wrist mounted switches for the direction control creating a jacket for cyclists that combines the most critical safety aspects for cyclists in low light or dark conditions.

Sure, Leah’s concept could be integrated into backpacks or other clothing items or even caps - whatever fashion designers can envision. The core idea is there and the benefits for people, especially cyclists is great.

For reference: another concept of a cycling jacket with direction indication can be found on one of our previous posts.

I wonder how long it will take to get cycling gear with such great safety enhancement functions into the stores.

[source: DVICE]

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I have to lift my hat, so to speak, to wu-lee for the creation of the LED Hat. This concept of Wearable Electronic might not fall into the latest fashion trend but I do admire the creativity that motivated wu-lee to make this demonstrator.

You can find on this Site more details how wu-lee designed and created the LED Hat. It uses a mesh that carries 1024 LED!

That’s a lot of wiring and soldering. The construction notes are a very interesting and a inspirational read.

The great thing about this concept is that anything can be displayed on the matrix of 16 (vertical) and 64 (horizontal around the hat) pixels.

Images, icons, text, anything can be visualized in animated form to express yourself, light up your party or simple use your hat to advertise. Now that’s what I call ‘working with the hat head.

The integration looks very neat and clean and the animation that can be seen in the demo video give a very powerful idea of the potential that is inside this Hat concept.

wu-lee’s construction notes might also serve as inspiration for students, DIY fans or even a mighty big company to come up with better, useful, practical and most of all more fashionable products that light up to positively influence our mood by changing the color of our clothing, bags and yeah - even hats.

Light, especially animated light displays that react to certain situations have always had a fascination and having the possibility to change our outfit (the color of it) in line of our emotions is one of the wishes of fashion designers as well as for consumer.

May the light come over out of our clothing soon.

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