soundie: a musical touch-sensitive light-up hoodie
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introsoundie: 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.
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step 1supplies
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-- c…
step 2design and layout
Plan the layout of your garment. When you place your hands on the conductive fabric of your garment, the program will detect that the circuit has been completed, and the LE…
step 3transfer your sketch to the garment
Mark up your garment.Use double-sided tape (or roll single-sided tape back onto itself to create an essentially double-sided tape) to attach your LilyPad pieces to the garm…
step 4glue LilyPad pieces and iron conductive fabric onto your garment
Trim the leads off your power supply.On the back of your power supply, there are metal parts sticking out. Trim those off with scissors or pliers (shown in picture below). …
step 5sew power supply and LilyPad mainboard to your garment
Sew down the + petal of the power supply to your garment.If you've never done any sewing before, here is an excellent tutorial to introduce you to the basics, including how…
step 6multimeter testing
Measure the resistance of your stitching. Switch the setting of your multimeter so that it measures resistance. Measure resistance from the + of the power supply to the + o…
step 7sew on your LEDs
Sew on the LEDs.Using the same techniques as for the power supply, sew the LEDs onto your garment. I like to start at the LilyPad main board, and then trace the paths to my…
step 8sew on your speaker
Sew on the speaker.Using the same techniques as with the LEDs and other components, sew your speaker onto the garment. With the speaker I used, the + and - petals don't mat…
step 9stitch traces to the conductive fabric
Stitch from the LilyPad main board to the conductive fabric.You will need to have two separate pieces of conductive fabric connected to the main board (so that before you c…
step 10program your jacket
Figure out what you want your garment to do.There's plenty of flexibility with this speaker and LED and conductive fabric design. The program reads the analog input (that i…
