Hi All, Hope everyone's having a delightful new year. FYI, if you're looking for thread to use in washable computing, I found a spool of this stuff in the local (Ottawa) Michael's arts'n'crafts store. Checked it with the Ohmmeter and although I'm not getting a constant reading, there's definitely enough silver content to get down into the kOhms range. Here are the details: DMC, Metallic Embroidery Thread (DMC = Dollfuss-Mieg & Cie Paris Cedex 12) Light Silver, 43.7y / 40m Art. 283 Z Composition: 72% Viscose 27.9% Polyester 0.1% Pure Silver Bar-code number: 0 077540 287031 Another number on back: F 75579 This was the only stuff I could find which explicitly had an identified metal content. All the others were "metallic", or some variation which isn't necessarily conductive; it "looks like metal". Don't know how well the stuff will work for making FCBs (Fabric Circuit Boards :-), so I'll just have to try and see. I don't expect it will be very efficient as power conductor, but should do fine for the slow-speed analog interfacing... Time to play. Andrew. -- Andrew Plumb, VE3SLG mailto://andrew(at)plumb(dot)org http://www.plumb.org/tekmage/ spk2_0.0.2: http://www.plumb.org/tekmage/source/spk2/ -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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