Here’s a fun looking project by Eli Skipp of Pumping Station One. Taking a departure from the permanency of traditional soft circuit crafting, she designed this customizable fabric light bright. To set up a display, you simply stick pre-bent LEDs where you want them, and they light up! The positive connection comes from the conductive thread strips on the front, and the ground gets connected to a conductive fabric strip on the back. The design just makes a static display for now, however with a bit of tweaking, it would be possible to support animations as well.
Photo by Anne Petersen











Nice to see the newish hackerspace in Chicago pumping out some projects!
She just gave a great talk in Berlin this winter — see it here:
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/events/3664.en.html
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