Inexpensive and super simple to use.  Switch your eTextile projects on or off with a tilt! This one is $2 from adafruit. Digikey has more accurate tilt ball switches. You can make your own by following this Instructable.  

  “A photoresistor or light dependent resistor (LDR) or photocell is a resistor whose resistance decreases with increasing incident light intensity; in other words, it exhibits photoconductivity.” wikipedia I keep a large supply of these inexpensive sensors on hand. You can find them available at DigiKey.

A neighbor supported a IndieGoGo for Boarderless Electronics and received this $12 USD starter kit, including a faux Arduino board, in the mail. On Sunday afternoon I’ll teach the 8 year olds how to use it and give you a report on the entire kit.

I used a USB Microscope Camera from adafruit to capture this detail. Read more about light emitting diodes on wikipedia

While in NYC I picked up a few hooks, eyes and sewing supplies. From left to right: Jumbo Hook and Eye Size #11 Hook and Eye Size #7 Heavy Duty Hook and Eye Heavy Duty Hook and Eye Silver

Happy Forth of July!

  My cheat sheet for using an Arduino Uno as an ISP for programing Amtel’s ATtiny45 ******************************************************* updated 27 July 2016 High Lo Tech website has updated information for 1.6.4 Board Manager Paste the following URL into the field: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/damellis/attiny/ide1.6.xboardsmanager/package_damellis_attiny_index.json ******************************************************* HOW TO USE ARDUINO UNO TO PROGRAM ATTINY45 Download Arduino 1.0.1 from Arduino (scroll to ‘previous IDE versions’) Install in […]

  Painting connections from ATtiny45 hardware to conductive thread with Bare conductive paint.    

  I used a StarTech.com 6 ft Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort 1.2 Adapter Cable M/M – DisplayPort 4k with HBR2 support – 6 feet Mini DP to DP Cable from Amazon for $11 USD    

Both flowers are fully powered and functioning as planned! I am letting the Flowers sense their environment so I can test the batteries life span on ping.  1:54 and all systems on.  I’ll be checking the LEDs brightness every 15 minutes. woop woop woop Red LEDs are hard to photograph! Green LEDs and Pink Petals are a great combination!  I’ll […]