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UV reactive materials, which initially have an off-white appearance, change to bright colors when ...
UV reactive materials
Materials 101, Polymers, Textiles
As the name indicates, electrotextiles are textiles with electrical properties. They're mostly used for electromagnetic shielding, anti-static and heating purposes, and also for soft circuits: electric circuits or ...
electrotextiles
Conductive Materials, Materials 101, Textiles
ghost dress grown from a vat of green tea
Treehugger recently reported on BioCouture, a fashion research project based at Central Saint Martin's College in London and led by Suzanna Lee, which seeks to grow textiles ...
bio-couture :: green tea leather
Organic Materials, Textiles
I keep thinking that even though we tend to use conductive fabric and other soft circuits materials mostly for wearables and such, there has to be much more to it than that. Ayman's drumsticks are a great of example of ...
conductive fabric drumsticks for capacitive devices
Conductive Materials, Techniques, Textiles
I've learned that there are 3 main challenges in working with soft circuits. The first one is to create circuitry with materials that are almost always completely exposed: a lot of thought goes into the layout of the ...
connecting hardware & softwear on soft(er) circuits
Materials 101, Techniques, Textiles
OSLOOM is is a project led by Margarita Benitez aimed at creating an open source electromechanical thread-controlled loom that will be computer controlled. It will include basic software allowing anyone to simply weave a ...
This mitten lights up when its wearer shakes hands with someone. It has two exposed soft contacts around the thumb and across the palm which, when bridged by bare skin, turn on the LED embedded on the flower. The mitten ...
light up handshake glove
Conductive Materials, Materials 101, Techniques, Textiles
bionic yarn is a 'new fabric made of recycled plastic bottles' (PET).
I'm loving the great 'process' section on the website, explaining the extrusion process and how the fibers are spun together to make the ...
More interesting news from Stanford University's research on carbon nanotubes, via a Printed Electronics World article:
Ordinary textiles could be transformed into batteries that hold up to three times more energy ...
cloth + ink + carbon nanotubes = battery
Conductive Materials, Textiles
