Soft Circuits: Electro fashion, upcycled clothes, sewing LEDs onto shit.
Your mostly-humble narrator I've had an off-and-on love affair with soft circuits since I became aware of them. Unfortunately, all the pre-made boards for soft circuits are clumsy (being traditional hard PCBs) and finnicky (hard to keep a good connection) to use. Being a good little hacker, I…
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Learn about LEDs! Circuits! Tiny Clothing! And share a love for ridiculous things by making your own light-up soft circuit toy this Sunday 3-6pm at NYC Resistor. Grab your ticket here! We'll provide all the supplies and teach you about things like conductive sewing thread and conductive cloth. We'll also provide a blank plushie and…
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For the Unraveled performance, I have been working with conductive yarn. What I have found is to make sensors with a resistance that is measurable. I don't focus on the electronics and measurements so much - just what seems to work. A lot of this is based on Kobakant's How To Get What You Want.…
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Push Puppet Automata: As a kid I was always amazed by push puppets. You know the the little (usually wooden) puppets that you push on the bottom and they collapse and dance about. Problem was, I always pulled them apart to see how they worked. Turns out they are very …
The work of Afroditi Psarra includes experimentation with embroidery, soft circuit and diy electronics. I got in touch with her after discovering she was holding a workshop in Barcelona around sound performances using Lilypad Arduino along with a really cool embroidered synthesizer (…and also submitting her project to Maker Faire Rome !). Even if her […]
How to Make Conductive Thread: This thread consists of very fine wire and thread combined together to create the strong, low resistance thread. The actual process of making the conductive thread is quick and simple... It is the tool needed to make the thread that can take the …
Description One you've mastered starting and finishing off stitches you're ready for this tutorial which describes how to create a basic E-Textiles circuit using a standard through hole LED. This circuit is slightly harder to create than one with a PCB LED as you have to twist the legs on the LED. This can be fiddly to
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Solderless Circuits: Simple circuits can be created without the need for soldering. Here are some fun projects we found here on Instructables to get you started.
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You may remember the Ugly Reactorflake Sweater, a holiday inspired project by Alex “Merlin” Glowaski. Well, Alex is at it again with another cool project–a glowing leaf neckl…
Snap Together Arduino Circuits: It is very frustrating spend hours sewing a circuit together, only to find out that the circuit doesn't work! The problem can be with the design, the construction, or the code. Sewing the arduino components and snaps onto a piece of felt will allow …
ESP - The importance of using a soft start to prevent high inrush current with common high inrush loads.
