Maker Faire Bay Area 2008
Soft Circuit Embroidery

Craft Demos , Saturday 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Becky will show an introductory tutorial for working with conductive thread to make a circuit on fabric. Using traditional embroidery techniques with modern electronic components, she will demo the creation of a simple soft switch circuit that will light up a sewn LED with a watch battery.

Photos of an advanced example using a Lilypad Arduino are linked below.

Web site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bekathwia/sets/72157604624771620/

Project photo.

Topic(s): Arts | Crafts | Engineering

Tags: arduino lilypad electronics embroidery crafts sensor LED

About the Maker(s)

Becky Stern Becky Stern [
Becky is a contributer to the CRAFT and MAKE blogs as well as a graduate student at Arizona State University. With her unique background in art, design, & technology from Parsons the New School for Design, she creates artwork and writings about the exciting intersections therein. She's a perennial do-it-yourselfer and jane-of-all-trades. In her free time she enjoys traveling,barcodes, culture jamming, plants, soldering and knitting.
http://sternlab.org

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