E-Textiles

DIY Project Idea: Create a custom hand warmer blanket using heating pads.

Learn the options for powering your LilyPad projects, LiPo battery safety and care, and how to calculate and consider power constraints on your projects.

Control LEDs based on your movement using an accelerometer! Make your LEDs breathe by fading in and out when laying on the floor, turn off the LEDs when moving to your side, or make the LEDs blink in a headstand!

How to hook up the LilyPad Buzzer and make sound with code.

Is your finger bent? Is your finger straight? The Qwiic Flex Glove controller board will answer this age old question for you with the flex sensor!

In this tutorial, we will sew standard electroluminescent (EL) wire to a hoodie.

In this tutorial, we will sew standard electroluminescent (EL) wire to a pair of pants.

Learn how to hook up the LilyPad RGB LED and use a common cathode RGB LED in e-textile projects.

Learn how to hook up the LilyPad Tri-Color LED and use a common anode RGB LED in e-textile projects.

Learn to create and integrate your own handmade switch into an e-textile circuit.

How to create your own e-textiles buttons.

Learn how to calculate how many LEDs your LilyPad project can power and how long it will last.

The LilyPad MP3 Player is an amazing little board that contains almost everything you need to play audio files. You can use it to create all kinds of noisy projects, from MP3 hoodies to talking teddy bears. Your imagination is the only limit! This tutorial will help you get started.

Learn how to use conductive thread with LilyPad components.

A project tutorial to add an extra effect for dancers performing a choreographed piece. The harness can be added quickly under a costume.

The LilyPad Vibe Board is a small vibration motor that can be sewn into projects with conductive thread and controlled by a LilyPad Arduino. The board can be used as a physical indicator on clothing and costumes for haptic feedback.

A quick tutorial showing how to reprogram the ATtiny85 IC found on the LilyTiny or LilyTwinkle boards.

Show your school spirit, geek pride, or fandom with a light up pennant using the LilyTwinkle or LilyPad Arduino.

Learn how to build a simple microcontroller circuit using the pre-programmed LilyTiny Board

Make a beautiful night sky costume using the LilyPad LEDs and the LilyTiny.

Create a quick and easy piece of e-textile art based on a Zodiac sign using a LilyTiny, LilyPad LEDs, battery holder, conductive thread, and coin cell battery.

Here we will learn how to say how you feel with pizza. Electric pizza.

Make a soft circuit firefly jar with conductive thread, LEDs, and the LilyTwinkle!

Craft a stuffed monster while exploring the LilyTiny preprogrammed microcontroller. This is a project based on the Plush Monster Activity created at MIT's High-Low Tech Lab by Emily Lovell, Jie Qi, and Natalie Freed.