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 […]

  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.        

  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.      

  I made a mistake in programing an ATtiny for an electronic embroidery circuit and had to use alligator clips to reprogram the microcontroller while it was already sewn into the eTextile Breadboard.   Set up the Arduino Uno as ISP.     Attach alligator clips to the male to male jumper cables.     Carefully attach the alligator clips […]

  Speaker prototypes from conductive thread.    

  Stuck between projects so I started stitching.    

  Sorting Harry’s boxes and I unearthed some useful supplies!