Wednesday, April 01, 2015
Poking Around Textiles With Your Multimeter
Hackaday: In this latest video by Adafruit, [Becky Stern] goes undercover at a fabrics store with her trusty multimeter to find some new material that can be used for electronics projects! While pickings are slim, she made some useful discoveries — most metallic fabrics aren’t conductive, but some are — You’ll definitely need to take your multimeter with you.
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This article is awesome because it gives people an easy way to find conductive fabrics at a normal fabric store, rather than only finding them online through big companies that will probably charge a lot more. It gets people thinking of cool ways to integrate technology into their very clothing. I remember an article a while ago that was about a fashion designer who used little LED’s sewn into the garments that allowed them to change color and patterns. This could be a DIY for something that is similar to that. It really is conducive to creativity. Just imagine all the cool cosplays that could be made by using this technique to find good fabrics. Just because a character is animated or digitized in a video game doesn't mean you cant replicate all the interesting lighting effects that the designers can just draw in otherwise. It speaks volumes to the people who can pull off an accurate cosplay when they include crazy cool technology things to their outfits.
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