Wearables Safety / Fashion note: Don't make loose floppy sleeves with conductive thread exposed. Was working with power tools today, wearing a flannel "comfy" shirt, and sleeves tried to get tied up between the plug and the socket. Had there been metallic thread in there, could have been "interesting" i.e. I could have gotten a good tingle; With no metallic thread, it was just annoying <G> Mark Andrew Plumb wrote: > > 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" to> Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org -- I re-ship for small US & overseas businesses, world-wide. (For private individuals at cost; ask.) -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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