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 will light up and sing different notes depending on how you touch the conductive fabric. We'll be using sewable electronics (the LilyPad arduino module) and conductive threads and fabrics so that your garment will be soft and washable.

Step 1 Supplies

You will need:

-- LilyPad Arduino main board
-- LilyPad USB Link
-- mini USB cable
-- LilyPad power supply
-- 12 LilyPad LEDs
-- speaker
-- a spool of 4-ply conductive thread
-- conductive fabric
-- a digital multimeter
-- a piece of clothing (I used a hoodie)
-- a needle
-- a fabric marker or piece of chalk, a bottle of fabric glue
(Available at your local fabric shop or Joann Stores.)
-- a pair of scissors
-- an iron
-- nail polish

Comments

[nmerannage1]

and can I also get http://littlebirdelectronics.com/products/lilypad-arduino-328-main-board for main board and breakout

[kanjun]

Yes, that looks fine.

[nmerannage1]

-do we have to use
LilyPad Arduino main board
LilyPad USB Link
LilyPad power supply
12 LilyPad LEDs
or can we use different brands than lily pad

for led, power supply does it have to be lily pad

[kanjun]

You can certainly use non-LilyPad microcontrollers and sensor components, as well as LEDs and power supplies. However, the useful thing about the LilyPad is that it's light-weight, lies flat, washable, and easy to sew into fabric.

[EngineerJakit]

oh mah gawd! OvvO I must build this awesomeness!

seriously, I have got to build this! just because i should, ya know?

[chasian]

what kind of speaker did you use?

[mazingo]

Wow...really good!

What would it take for you to marry me?! :P

Actually...how or where did you learn all this stuff? :)

[warpling]

Need a video!!! This looks awesome!

[Ward_Nox]

any video?

[kanjun]

A video will be posted in the next week or so. =)

[alxjpow]

A video would be great, looks cool :)

[rachel]

Fantastic, I love it! i was going to make a turn signal jacket using my Lilypad I just got, but now I may have to do something more like this.