Wu-Lee has created an awesome LED Hat.
The LED has uses a mesh that carries 1024 LEDs! 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 ..read more
Posted in: Accessories, DIY - Corner, Display, Hats, HowTo's, LED
We have seen the LED-Dress from Hussein Cahalayan but the $ 16.000,- might be a bit too much for some of us.
Do not fret, I can show you a way to have a similar ‘head turning’ outfit for your next summer-night party for just $ 70-80 with a bit of DIY and the fabulous instruction from Laura Cesari posted on the Craftzine Blog.
Laura, an artist and designer, demonstrated the creation of the Fire Skirt during the Maker Fair last May and made her instruction now available on Instructables.com
The dress is based on an A-line skirt pattern; a cone-shaped skirt that bunches with gravity and creates organic-looking folds. It has 2 layers: a shiny satin layer underneath, and a translucent chiffon layer on top.
The shiny satin layer is adorned with decorative ..read more
Posted in: DIY - Corner, HowTo's, Skirt
Whatever electrical function we want to integrate in our clothing, it has to have at least one switch, to switch this function on and off.
To make an electrical textile switch is easier than you might think, especially by following the instructions worked out by Leah Buechley.
Based on the idea and DIY instruction from Leah, we show how to create a single switch that uses only textile materials. With this instruction, you can create your own versions with multi switch keyboards or give them different shapes.
Please visit Leah’s Website for detail information where to get the materials. She has links for each item needed that helps you to find out where to buy them.
What you need to make a textile switch:
Fabric glue
Patch conductive fabric
Patch of felt, wool or a
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Certain electrical components are needed to create Wearable Electronic clothing.
We’re only going to explain electronic principles that are absolutely necessary to know in order to undertake the projects we introduce. For more in-depth knowledge, you should check out this resource, Electronics for Beginner and Intermediate Level.
In very basic terms, electrical components are electrically responding elements that perform different tasks. The combination of different components can create simple functions as closing an electrical flow (switch on/off) or very complex tasks in ICs (Integrated Circuits).
As far as we know, there are only very few electrical components, that are made from textiles, on the market. We can find sensors from Eleksen that can be used as switches and we have textile sensors like the one from Textronics for heart beat detection. But that’s ..read more
Posted in: DIY - Corner, HowTo's, e-Textiles
Starting our DIY Wearable Electronic series, we introduce you first to another outstanding expert and promoter of Textile Electronic, Mouna Andraos.
Mouna created, based on inspirations from Leah Buechley, a platform for everyone to learn from her technique to combine electronic and textiles. Her work is presented on electroniccraft.org from where we have taken the following intoduction to Textile Electronics.
Introduction to the Soft Circuit
1 – Overview
Building circuits using fabric and thread and replace the soldering iron with a needle. The results are washable, flexible, light and soft circuits. The resulting possibilities are endless (almost). These circuits rely heavily on the use of conductive thread, you should consider the type of application and signal you need to transmit before trying to build anything out of thread.
2 – Materials
Fabric
Conductive thread
Fray check
Tailor chalk
Regular thread
Multimeter
3 ..read more
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