Looking back at the development of my eTextile breadboards.    

  I had finished sewing an Atmel ATtiny45 into a paper breadboard when I realized that I hadn’t programed the micro controller! Luckily I was able to attach alligator clips to the ATtiny45 pins and program the chip with a fade program via an Arduino Uno.    

  These three eTextile circuits use the same hardware to create a light sensing circuit.   The first two example uses seed beads to insulate the conductive thread and add an aesthetic twist to standard electronic hardware.     While the final circuit uses electrical tape, conductive paint, conductive thread, conductive tape, and a lot of ingenuity to connect the […]

  Switch circuit breadboard prototype.      

  These are threads from Syscom that I have used on various eTextile projects and they are now available on amazon!   AmberStrand 166 Silver – 30 feet $11 USD AmberStrand 166 Silver – 130 feet $37 USD I measure the resistance is 4 ohms/meter. This is the thread I use when I make bobbin lace. Please see my blog […]

  eBay storefront czb6721960 product photos for 4cm x 6 cm double sided PCB’s is not accurate.   The boards arrived in sheets of four and had to be broken apart then sanded for smooth edges. The boards did not have white ink remarking the rows and columns. czb6721960 customer service was lacking in rectifying the misrepresentation of the product. […]

  Brother solved my problem! At PIF Camp we attempted to hack the pen holder to work with electronink conductive ink pen…. and failed. Details are in the 28 September 2015 blog post.   Little did I know that Brother was working on a solution!     I haven’t had a chance to test this adapter with other pens yet. […]

  What I’ve been working on the past few months….embroidery on an electronic prototype board.        

  Sewing bobbins of Silverell, Stainless Steel, and Mitsifuju conductive thread.  

  Use tape to attach conductive thread to the positive and negative terminals of a 3V coin cell battery to power up a thru hole LED.