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 [...]
Radiation detecting bracelet
Self-proclaimed engineer, designer and artist Cati Vaucelle created a variant of a wearable Electromagnetic Field Detector in the form of a bracelet.
Electromagnetic Field (EMF) detectors are certainly not new and wearable prototypes have been created throughout the past years like the one mentioned on the Make Blog by Jonah Brucker-Cohen but Cati Vaucelle build the [...]
Wearable Electronic DIY - a Blinking Fashion Statement
A recent article by Charlie Foster for Forbes.com about the wearable electronic DIY movement describes the ‘cross over point’ between the ‘boy’s only’ club of silicon based tinkering and the ‘arts-and-crafts’ community traditionally a more feminine domain.
The marriage of tech and fashion opens the doors for crafters to learn how to solder and tinkerers to [...]
Beat cold hands with the Vaso heated glove liner
Cold hands are the first sign of the approaching winter time. If you hate, like me, cold fingers, heated gloves are the invention of today.
With the advancements of e-textiles our winter outfit does not have to come in multiple layers but it can be slim and lightweight almost like summer clothing as long as textile [...]
Textronics offers heart rate monitor developer’s kit
Textronics, who’s textile sensor is used to make one the most fashionable heart rate sensing sports apparel follows the trend in the wearable electronic industry by offering a developer’s kit for their heart rate textile sensors.
The Developer’s Kit contains a large selection of Textronics textile sensors (12x), different types of knit tubes with snaps, [...]
QIO Systems textile touch pads for fashion designer
QIO Systems which licensed the ElekTex and SOFTswitch technologies is putting back the textile keypad into the interactive fashion world.
A wealth of information is available on QIO System’s new Website showing the solutions QIO is offering to the fashion brands and manufacturers.
Next to the fabric keypad QIO Systems offers a wide range of electronic [...]
e-Textile pants can improve the lifestyle for elderly
We have pointed out in the past ththe high value e-textiles and wearable technologies have to help improving the lifestyle of persons requiring medical treatment, rehabilitation after medical treatment and enhancing the life style of elderly persons by assisting declining body functions.
Without wearable technologies many of this persons are confined to rooms or stationary monitoring. [...]
EroGear Wearable Display Jacket
Extending our wearable display topic from yesterday, we found another amazing wearable display from a company called ‘EroGear‘.
But unlike to our story yesterday, EroGear is offering their wearable display integrated in any jacket of your choice.
Here are some of the impressive features EroGear is offering in their tailor made display jackets: a software package that [...]