Fabricademy: eTextiles + Wearables II
Overview
This lecture is the second eTextile and wearable class developed for Fabricademy 2018. You can see the full lecture here. Enjoy 🙂
Resources
VISUAL
Neopixels
Sewable Neopixels
Neopixel Effect Generator
Adafruit Neopixel Uberguide
Library installation
Powering
Fiber Optics
The Beginners Guide to Fiber Optics by MikaelaHolmes
Lateral optical fibers by Datapaulette
Lulu Project by Maurin Donneaud and Kobakant
Thermochromic
Materials
Kobakant’s material list
Sparkfun
SFXC
Electronics
TIP vs Mosfet
Note: TIP120s need current to turn on. They dissipates more power, so higher probability that you will need a heat sink.
Building a Heat Controlling Circuit from eTextile Summer Camp
Heat Controlling Circuit from Kobakant
ITP High Current Loads
High-Power Control: Arduino + N-Channel MOSFET
Datasheet
Examples + Tutorials
In All Different Colors
FabTextiles
Warming Up Instructable by Beam
HairIO
Designing Dynamic Textile Patterns by Linda Worbin (Swedish School of Textiles)
SOUND
Sound Textiles Workshop by Kobakant & Afroditi Psarra
Fabric speaker documentation (video examples, code, circuits)
DFPlayer Mini Code (using commands instead of library)
MOTION
SMAs
SMAs Meet Smocking from eTextile Summer Camp
More Smocking Examples from Kobakant
How to work with Shape Memory Alloy by Jie Qi
Flip Dots
One-bit textile by Irene Posch & Ebru Kurbak
More flip dot experimentation from Stitching Worlds project
Motion slides from Computational Craft (includes Arduino circuit for flip dots and more description on electromagnetism)
Vibe Motors
How to Build a Vibration Motor Circuit
ATTINY
Programming
Hooking up the TinyAVR Programmer
Arduino as ISP
Serial Communication
Easy ATTiny Serial Communication with Tiny AVR Pro by blorgggg
Serial with FTDI Cable
Software Serial Code Examples