Open Heart & LilyPad Arduino Brooch

Here's how to combine Jimmie Rogers' Open Heart Kit with a LilyPad Arduino microcontroller board to make an animating LED heart brooch.

Here's a video of it in action:

Materials:
Open Heart kit or make your own
LilyPad Arduino
LilyPad AAA power board
conductive thread
scraps of fabric
embroidery floss
hot glue/epoxy
safety pin or pinback
solder
stranded wire

Tools:
USB cable regular to mini
LilyPad programmer
soldering iron
pliers
wire strippers
hot glue gun
wire snippers
scissors
sewing needle

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Step 1: Assemble the Open Heart

Assemble your Open Heart according to the instructions on its website. Make some fancy animations using Jimmie's easy Flash program that generates the Arduino code you need. No programming experience required!

bestvaluecopy says: Nov 30, 2012. 1:37 AM

Amazing combination!!
I love the t-shirt. Color Contrast with back ground and text is beautiful.

robert.easter says: Oct 30, 2008. 12:53 PM

I love the shirt. yahoo sn: one_foot_in shoot me a hello and let me know where you got it? :)

Customizo in reply to robert.easterJun 30, 2011. 9:51 AM

You should check out Customizo.com to create your own custom t-shirt. We have a state-of-the-art design studio offering tools and features giving you the capability to upload and edit your own design, or use one of our custom design templates. Look at some of our design ideas if you need help getting started. GIve it a try!

bekathwia (author) in reply to robert.easterOct 30, 2008. 1:10 PM

It's from my undergrad school, we only did a limited run!

robert.easter in reply to bekathwiaOct 30, 2008. 2:21 PM

Ahh, koodos then!! I thought it was incredibly slick.

Goodhart in reply to robert.easterJul 13, 2010. 8:08 AM

There are places that will make short runs of one or more of a shirt you'd like:

Like Vista Print for instance.

Custom Ink is another

OR you could type in T-shirt into the search engine here, and do your own :-)

MikeHungerford in reply to bekathwiaOct 30, 2008. 2:18 PM

Could we see a shot of the whole imprint on the shirt? :-)

davidsaradin says: May 22, 2011. 6:29 PM

God that bekathwia is cute. She is like a little highly-skilled, tool using ginger dinosaur.

nerdbot2085 says: Mar 15, 2010. 8:21 AM

Great project. I just finished a project that yours helped inspire. Thanks for the ideas.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/imakefunthings/sets/72157623625160334/