Velleman solid core prototyping wire in 10 colors from Amazon January 2014.   The variety of colors is useful for prototyping breadboard circuits.   I use my favorite thread snips to strip the jacketing off the wire.  

  CONDUCTIVE PAINT for sale! ***** UPDATE 10AM SOLD ******** CUPro from LessEMF. Extra bottles from my 5 June workshop. 2 oz bottles. Use before 2015. $20 + shipping. Perfect for summer time paper computing craft projects! email info @ etextilelounge.com for details   Draw electronic circuits.  

Its rare, but sometimes I purchase a dud on eBay. The fiber optics from me80 Wholesale FIber Optics, they are a mega dud! The product is a .75mm fiber optic that has been dipped in paint. The colors do not resemble what is advertised on the ebay site. They fiber optics are not vibrant and uniform, but dull and splotchy. […]

  Use a cording foot with a zig-zag stitch to sew electric at wire to fabric.   This is a Bernina Cording Foot what has two grooves in which to guide the wires for parallel traces.   By using a matching colored bobbin thread the traces are easily identified.   This process can work with a wide variety of wire […]

Stuart burned a wooden eTextile badge for the eTextile workshop at Arrowmont.

Pretty pretty paint!     A challenge to remove the safety clips…   I was skeptical of the plastic tub, but it worked out just fine.   Once I arrived at Arrowmont I transferred the paint to 1 oz squeeze bottles that the participants could use for paper computing.

  RESISTANCE hand sewn 8” trace has a resistance of 7 ohms machine sewn top thread 4” trace before thread broke has a resistance of 1 ohms machine sewn bottom thread 8” trace has a resistance of 1 ohms THREAD QUALITY difficult to thread a size 24 crewel needle frays and whiskers medium ease to sew by hand, breaks as […]