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Interesting project – this is an example of another use of smart textiles in sports apart of what we were thinking about (body and movement).

More info here.

LED display

Used very nice and is controlled by Lilli Pad. The solution of the “short circuit problem” that we were often facing while trying to create something similar is quite simple according to the linked webpage:

The textile itself serves as an insulator between the two layers of conductive yarns. This allows the creation of a grid or matrix without making electrical contact on the crossing points.

I found this while surfing the web today:

GANTS LUMINEUX

or in english here

These LED gloves are very similar to ones created during the first workshop here – additionaly ours automatically adjusted the brightness of the LEDs accordingly to the environment

It is very nice to see such thing, I have a good felling about that…

Frequent idea on the workshops was a bag, that would lit up inside to make searching small things easier. Here is a design idea of such purse…

(According to the article avereage woman spends 14 hours per year by searching for small things in her purse…this would then really be usefull).

Choose Glow purse from the menu on the left
See also here

I saw part of the Opening ceremony for summer olympics and I was surprised especially by one thing – those man in light suits with small bulbs…that was smart textiles wasn’t it?

This one is interesting:

enlighted designs, inc.
The source for custom lighted clothing, costumes, and accessories.

URL: http://enlighted.com/index.html

I have found and interesting piece of freeware, that might be helpful when designing electrical circuits…

Can be downloaded with some examples here:

http://www.physicsbox.com/indexsolveelec2en.html

I spent only a few moments playing around with it, but it seems to be easy to manipulate. I also think it can calculate what kind of resistor you’ll need if using a certain number of LED or other components…