Renegade Craft Fairs

I just found out about the Renegade Craft Fairs that take place all over the country .... they also have a cool blog, called Renegadehandmade-- Check it out!

Berkeley Workshop on Music & E-Textiles

http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/event/2009/08/15/August_interactive_e_textile_workshop_arduino_lilypad

LilyPad Arduino Flickr Group

http://www.flickr.com/groups/lilypad_arduino/pool/

Communicating Between LilyPads

Leah says:
"You can physically attach 2 LilyPads to each other so that they can communicate. To do this you would attach the TX petal of one to the RX petal of another & vice versa. To do wireless communication you would need to use the LilyPad XBee (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8937)."

Getting Started Resources

Ordering Toolkits:
To order the LilyPad Arduino kits are available from SparkFun electronics. Leah suggests ordering the following as a starter kit:

1 LilyPad Pro kit: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8873
1 spool of 4ply conductive thread: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8549
5 LEDs: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8873
1 light sensor: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8464
1 RGB LED: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8467

NOTE: Each spool of thread can be shared with 3 or so people & you may not need the mini USB cables that are part of the pro kit.

Download the Arduino software for Mac or PC:
www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

Getting Started Guides:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/LilyPad/
http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/ArduinoLilyPad

The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadephia

The Fabric Workshop and Museum is the only museum in the United States creating and exhibiting new work in new materials and new media in collaboration with emerging and established international artists.

http://www.fabricworkshop.org/

DIY e-textiles library, "How to get what you want"

"This website aims to be a comprehensible, accessible and maintainable reference resource, as well as a basis for further exploration and contribution"

This website, "How to get what you want" was developed in large part by one of my (wonderful) incoming graduate students, Hannah Perner-Wilson.

DIY • Making Your Own Tote Popular Activity

Artists create brightly colored bags with geometric patterns. Sewing groups are popular again.

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Photo: Philadelphia Inquirer, July 22, 2009

Flexible "Camera" Fabric

MIT researchers developed light-detecting fibers that could eventually be woven into a "fabric camera." Instead of counting on a single lens, the new system would use a web of the fibers as a distributed imaging surface. Imagine a shirt where the entire back is a "camera."

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