eTextile and wearable computing Showcase at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011

On Saturday May 21st at 3:00PM fashion designers, engineers and the immensely growing nubbier of wearable technology experts will come together for the ‘eTextile, smart clothing and wearable computing Showcase‘ at the Maker Fair. The ‘eTextile, smart clothing and wearable [...]


Workshop – Where Electronics Meet Textiles

Back after a blogging break caused be work overload the past few weeks and a energetic start into 2011. The first blog entry for this year is the upcoming workshop ‘Where Electronics Meet Textiles‘ arranged by eTextile guru Lynne Bruning [...]


DIY eTextiles – Light Up Leggings

Good news for the DIY wearable electronic community: the Soft Circuit Contest by Instructables has extended it’s submission deadline giving you another week to post your textile project. Don’t miss the opportunity to win a LilyPad Micro-controller Programmer Pro kit, [...]


World Maker Faire New York eTextile Fashion Show

The sweet summer holidays are coming to an end for most part of the world it’s time to quickly catch up in the working schedules. To help you get back into the wearable technology event calendar here is a reminder [...]


eTextile Fashion Show at Maker Faire

Maker Faire, the #1 event for DIY enthusiasts and Lynne Bruning the #1 in eTextile design teamed up to organize a show that fuses technology and fashion in form of Maker Faire’s first Wearable Computing Fashion Show. Lynne, textile enchantress [...]


Pianowl – musical mask

We have covered before various DIY projects using toy pianos, take them apart and add soft, textile like keypads to be integrated in shirts for a playful – literally – experimentation with eTextile materials. Tara Pattenden, visual artist in the [...]


Memory rich clothing – Meet and Playback glove

I love the idea using clothing to record the daily life like whom we meet, where we have been, what we have done and so on. Collecting these memories on-the-go does not require attention from the wearer, it just happens. [...]