Textiles: Year 7

This website and its companion book will show you how to make your own soft, colorful, and wearable electronics. You’ll play with fabric, light, and sound to build a glowing bracelet, a singing stuffed monster, a fabric bookmark, and a fuzzy cloth piano. Along the way, you’ll learn how to sew, design electronics, and write computer programs.

Real life sci-fi. How designers are cleverly repurposing every day objects to improve lives and inspire wonder.

This tutorial introduces five different methods for insulating conductive thread traces in an e-textile project. All the materials used in these methods can be found at your local craft or hobby store and require no specialized tools.