Here is a manual (in German only, sorry!) how to create and program a “Fieberteddy” (a teddy bear that can take someones temperature). The manual is based on a students’ project in a TechKreativ workshop at Sommer-Uni Flensburg last year.
Leah Buechley in corperation with SparkFun released the first version of the LilyPad. It seems to be a great work and I can’t wait till I get one.
View the LilyPad guide for more examples.
We will order it for EduWear, but unfortunatly it is already sold out.
So we will stick to the shield for the Arduino Mini that I verified, until there are new LilyPads availible. That is the Layout in Eagle and here is a pic of the layout.
Sewing on to a PCB is one of the ways to connect textiles to electronic as we know from xslab, Leah Buechley or the Bling Cricket. To do it with Arduino I made this shield for the mini:
On the frontside you have the controller and a power source
the actual board layout sits on the backside. I connected the reset to 5V to prevent random resets.
Once I tested it I will blog the eagle files.