In August I’ll be participating in PIF Hacker Camp! Held the first week of August in Slovenia’s Trenta Valley. Please, fill out the application form and join us!     Dario Cortese Marc Dusseiller Peter Edwards Luka Frelih Marko Peljhan  

  Using my Nexus 5 and a travel speaker circuitboard to test three different eTextile speaker options.    

  Winding bobbins of Mitsifuju onto sewing machine bobbins for use at PIF Camp in Slovenia.    

  Solderable breadboard for designing printed circuit boards.      

  I secured the yellow beaded speaker to a piece of white silk organza with Heat Bond. This is an iron adhesive that you can purchase at your local fabric store.      

  In order to use Syscom Metal Clad threads on my home sewing machine I had to wind them onto some empty spools.     Super sexy copper, silver, and nickel conductive thread!    

  Testing conductive thread from Syscom Metal Clad Fibers. Sewing a straight stitch with the conductive thread as a top thread to test resistance and learn how smoothly the thread feeds thru the eye of the needle.    

  Using a double ended beading needle feed conductive thread thru yellow metallic seed beads to create an eTextile speaker coil which works with an MP3 player.     Coil the beaded thread to create a speaker.     Hack a circuit from a mini travel speaker, remove the speaker, and connect the eTextile speaker with alligator clips.     […]

  I liberated a sound circuit from a mini travel speaker and connected it a conductive thread speaker coil.     Detail of eTextile speaker and magnet.    

  A drop of nail polish on the magnet end acts as an insulator when using it with an eTextile speaker.