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Featured Author: Lynne Bruning
If you search for "Textile Enchantress" on Google, you will undoubtedly discover Lynne Bruning, a woman who single-handedly dominates the "Textile Enchantress" industry. Melding age-old techniques...
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Beginning Soft Circuits
"Beginning Soft Circuits" gives you the complete step-by-step instructions for 19 different projects to light up your clothes. Learn to make your own sparkling tutu, a turn signal bike jacket, light up...
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soundie: a musical touch-sensitive light-up hoodie
This tutorial will show you how to create a garment that changes its behavior depending on how conductive you are. It detects conductivity through iron-on conductive fabric that we will use, and it...
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A wearable sound-to-light display, without a microprocessor - the Musicator...
Smaller than the 9-volt battery that powers it, the Musicator Jr. displays the sound it 'hears' (through the Electret Microphone) as fluctuating light bars. Small enough to fit in your shirt pocket, it...
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Bats Have Feelings Too
Sonar garment to assist the visually impaired with navigating the built environment. Made from Lilypad main board, LV-MaxSonar ultrasonic range finder and a LilyPad vibeboard. The range finder can be...
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Making a web-programmable, weight-sensitive backpack
I've been traveling a lot with my backpack, sometimes putting too much in it, which is bad for my back. Taking a cue from this weight-sensing tote on Instructables, I decided to build one using...
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seamonster friend
This is a large seamonster friend that a small seamonster friend made. ;) They are knitted from the same Loch Ness Monster pattern by Hansigurumi, but with different weights of yarn. The large one is...
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DIY Flexible Printed Circuits
Produce your own single-sided flexible printed circuits using a solid ink printer, copper-coated polyimide film, and common circuit board etching chemicals. You will find flex PCBs inside most...
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How to Mod your Equalizer T-Shirt with Headphone port
Those T-Shirts with Equalisers on them are absolutely amazing, but the microphones tend to be underpowered, and there's no way to connect your iPod to them. This mod solves both of those problems for a...
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Time Sensing Bracelet
The Time Sensing Bracelet is a fabric potentiometer. You select your desired time of day by making contact in the corresponding position on your wrist - where your watch would normally be. There is no...
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How to Cast On
There are some things I constantly find myself going back to my knitting books for a refresher on, and casting on is one of them. I’ve built it into my muscle memory now, but for years I’d need to...
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LED Bead Jig
Use this jig to make sew-able surface mount LED beads to illuminate your clothing, accessories, etc!! With this jig you can make 55 LED beads really fast! I started making my own LED beads a couple of...
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Crocheted Fairy Wings
Last year for Gen Con when Mr. Fruppi wanted to dress up as Captain America, he convinced me that I should dress up too. After giving a lot of thought as to what on earth I could wear, I finally came...
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iBeat Tee
This was a class project for GEEN 1400 at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Craft Technology Group (www.cs.colorado.edu/~ctg) The idea behind this idea is to create a new way for a person to express...
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RGB LED Tutorial (using an Arduino) (RGBL)
LEDs are great. But with any project there comes a point where flashing is simply not enough. For these cases an RGB (Red, Green, BLue) LED is the answer.With an RGB LED you'll be able to produce any...
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Conductive Thread Connector - Male
One of the major obstacles when working with textile/conductive fabric electronics is connecting them to traditional electronic hardware and other elements. The following Instructable illustrates one...
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Gakken Theremin Kit Hack
Here are instructions to do some basic hacks to the theremin kit that you can buy from Make. True, there are already directions to do both of these things in the accompanying magazine, but what sets...
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Programmable LED Umbrella
The desire: to build a programmable LED matrix that is ultra-portable. The solution: using conductive thread, sew an 8x8 matrix of LEDs into collapsable umbrella, then add a MAX7219 LED Controller,...
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Cellophane Fairy Wings in under 2 hrs!
This instructable will show you how to make some very easy cellophane fairy / dragonfly / insect wings in less than two hours, on average. If you have a lot of crafty stuff, you might not need to...
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Robot Rampage
I built this for the Stage Play An Evening of Steampunk and Robot Theatre . This is a test video I shot with some amusing bumpers. The robot is constructed from Buckets, trash cans and various bits of...
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