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Here you find the latest version of the EduWear manual: eduwear_manual_v3

Dear all,
we are happy to announce that BERNINA sewing machines will take part in our next teacher training meeting. For more information click here.

Amici version 0001i has been released, you can download Amici for Mac and Amici for Windows.

This release includes the following new features:

• The “Monitor” block has been renamed to “Read Value”: 

• Values from “Read Value” or “Data” block can be watched directly in the block window:
  

• On “mouse over” the menu blocks, suggestions are displayed what to use this block for:
  

You can now download and read the report from our last workshop…

3rd-eduwear-ws-report

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?

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