Category: Wearable Display

Light animated suit controlled via iPhone and WiFi

Marc, a engineer and software guru from Miami created an amazing, light animated suit that will be for sure the highlight of every party you show up with it. His iPhone Controlled LED Suit can serve as yardstick and inspiration [...]


DIY – Light Up Cycling Jersey

Riding a bicycle by night, especially in areas with street lights far apart requires good lighting on the bike. To increase the visibility and with it the safety of bikers, illumination of a bikers clothing is a wise choice only [...]


DIY – dynamic EL wire graphic for T-Shirts

We have seen many examples of Electroluminescent (EL) wires used to decorate clothing or bags by simply having some strings placed as contour and a light up in a flashing pattern. Cute at times but not very stylish most of [...]


DIY – Fabric Display

Fabric Light-Bright is an amazing textile display project from Eli Skipp of Pumping Station One, a first class hacking community in Chicago. I have never seen before such a simple yet highly unique eTextile design. Simple in it’s functionality as [...]


DIY – illuminated textiles

Lynne Bruning expanded her DIY eTextile portfolio on Instructables with the ‘flexible LED eTextile ribbon array‘ project showing how to create a textile illumination layer in grid form which is light weight and highly flexible, making it ideal to integrate [...]


DIY – Weaving circuits with LEDs

Instructables member Lynne Bruning has published quite a nice selection of inspiring e-textile projects providing a source of techniques for aspiring interactive fashion designer. Weaving circuits with LEDs is another example of her creative skills showing a way how to [...]


Wearable Electronic DIY project: Jacket thermometer

We have done a lot of coverage on heated apparels but how do we know how cold/warm is it inside our jacket? To find out the temperature inside a jacket we could use an ‘old fashion thermometer’ or we can [...]