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Making swatches for e-textiles.
 
Making swatches for e-textiles.
  
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The goal is to provide examples for simple and more advanced circuits on fabric.
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The possibilities to make "soft" versions of electronic components like switches and battery holders.
  
 
== preperation ==
 
== preperation ==

Revision as of 18:57, 16 April 2020

in progress


intro

Making swatches for e-textiles.

The goal is to provide examples for simple and more advanced circuits on fabric.

The possibilities to make "soft" versions of electronic components like switches and battery holders.

preperation

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Table with tools

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Putting a special spool with conductive thread inside the sewing machine.

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Lock Machine

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Table with swatches

tools

Machines

  • Sewing machine
  • lock machine
  • soldering station
  • scissors
  • needles
  • stitch undo tool

electronics

  • leds
  • coin cell batteries


materials

  • non conductive materials
  • conductive materials


ideas

  • fabric battery holder
  • making a circuit
  • connecting a LED
  • making a textile switch

results

The first swatch is trying out the conductive thread, as can be seen, in plain stitching, when the stitch length is too small, the stitch gets irregular at this fabric.