DIY electronic embroidery - Frog catching firefly
The cute little DIY e-Embroidery project from Becky Stern the ‘Frog catches firefly’ is a very simple way to get craft enthusiasts exploring the e-textile world.
The materials needed are simple: 2 LEDs, a switch, a coin cell battery and battery holder which is designed in a way to have holes to sew it onto fabric [...]
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 [...]
Paper electronic
Textile electronic hasn’t left it’s infancy state yet but there is already another electronic revolution on the horizon in form of Paper electronic.
Leah Buechley who is one of the main driving sources in the e-textile innovation not least with her creation of the LilyPad system has reached out to paper substrate.
Adapting the LilyPad concept and [...]
New DIY wearable electronic modules from Studio 5050
Studio 5050, a creative collective in the wearable electronic space, is preparing the launch of a set of e-textile modules which can help DIY enthusiasts, designer and students to work on their interactive fashion without the need of spending too much time on electronic development.
During the past few years, Studio 5050 developed remarkable interactive [...]
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 [...]
DIY Wearable Electronic - LilyPad E-Sewing and Pro Kit
Sparkfun has bundled two versions of the famous and fabulous Wearable Electronic DIY system around Leah Buechley’s LilyPad Arduino e-textile system for the Do-It-Yourself enthusiasts.
You can check out the two LilyPad kits first hand during the Maker Fair which takes center-stage this weekend in Austin.
If you can it make to Austin you can (pre) [...]
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 [...]
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 follow this DIY instruction to build a cool Jacket Thermometer indicating the temperature via different colors [...]
DIY e-textiles - Knit touchpad
Plusea (Hannah Perner-Wilson) added a new e-textile component to her DIY wearable electronic component portfolio, a Knit Touchpad.
The idea of the Knit Touchpad is to replicate a textile based input similar as the one we use on our notebooks. The advantage of a textile touchpad is: it can be part of a garment or [...]
Wearable Electronic DIY project: TV-B-GoneHoodie
Using zipper as a switch in e-Textile projects always catches my attention as zippers offer many possibility to interact in the most simplest way with the wearer - zippers are used since … like forever.
An example of the simplicity of a zipper switch is Rebecca Stern’s latest project, the TV-B-GoneHoodie. She uses a sweatshirt to [...]