Wearables
LilyPad Simple Power Hookup Guide
A basic guide for getting started using the LilyPad Simple Power with LiPo batteries.
21st Century Fashion Kit: Inflation
Learn how to use a blower and thin sheet plastic to create designs that change shape and volume!
21st Century Fashion Kit: Electrochromatic Circuits
Diana Eng walks you through a magically appearing design made with an thermochromatic pigment.
Humidity-sensing LED Flower
How about that humidity? This tutorial shows how to add sensing capability to the 21st Century Fashion Kit's RGB flower project.
Hackers in Residence - Sound and Motion Reactivity for Wearables
How to consciously wear light-up and and sound reactive clothing.
Twinkling Trick or Treat Bag
Make a light up goodie bag with conductive thread, LEDs, and the LilyTwinkle!
Customizing LilyPad LED Colors
A short guide to creating a rainbow of new LilyPad LED colors at home!
Das Blinken Top Hat
A top hat decked out with LED strips makes for a heck of a wedding gift.
ELastoLite Hookup Guide
Everything you need to setup a circuit using ELastoLite super flexible EL Panels from Oryon Technologies.
LDK Experiment 5: Make Your Own Switch
Learn to create and integrate your own handmade switch into an e-textile circuit.
LDK Experiment 6: Microcontroller Circuits
Learn how to build a simple microcontroller circuit using the pre-programmed LilyTiny Board
LDK Experiment 2: Multiple LED Circuits
Design both parallel and series e-textile circuits with multiple LEDs!
ProtoSnap LilyPad Development Simple Hookup Guide
Interested in getting into LilyPad? Or maybe it's Arduino that tickles your fancy? Just want to add a little white-blinky-LED zest to your vest? All of the above? The ProtoSnap LilyPad Simple is a great tool to explore any of these subjects.
My Drunk Kitchen Apron
A fun project that uses the LilyPad MP3 trigger. This apron will dispense helpful kitchen advice and humor from the host of My Drunk Kitchen, Hannah Harto!
Dungeons and Dragons Dice Gauntlet
A playful, geeky tutorial for a leather bracer that uses a LilyPad Arduino, LilyPad accelerometer, and seven segment display to roll virtual 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, and 100 side dice for gaming.
WS2812 Breakout Hookup Guide
How to create a pixel string with the WS2812 and WS2812B addressable LEDs!
LDK Experiment 4: Make Your Own Button
How to create your own e-textiles buttons.
Mario the Magician's Magical Lapel Flower
A guest tutorial from the astonishingly talented Mario the Magician showing how to put together your own servo-controlled lapel flower.
Getting Started with the LilyPad MP3 Player
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.
LDK Experiment 1: Lighting Up a Basic Circuit
The first experiment in the LilyPad Design Kit series. In this exercise, you will learn how a basic e-textiles circuit works, and light up a sewable LED using a coin cell battery holder and conductive thread.
Heating Pad Hand Warmer Blanket
DIY Project Idea: Create a custom hand warmer blanket using heating pads.
LilyPad Development Board Hookup Guide
The LilyPad Development Board is a sewable electronics prototyping board that you can use to learn circuits and programming with Arduino, then break apart to make an interactive fabric or wearable project.
Heartbeat Straight Jacket
An EL project that displays one person's heartbeat on another person's costume.
Old Tutorials
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