If you're going to electrically connect the LEDs to the fabric, you'd
probably be better off using 0603-size SMD LEDs. You'll go blind attaching
them without a magnifying lamp, but you can solder them right onto the
fabric, then apply a conformal coating (like clear Sally Hansen Hard As
Nails, from the drugstore, or a spritz of clear acrylic coating) to provide
strain relief for the component-fabric interface. See
http://www.media.mit.edu/~rehmi/fabric/ for more detail.
Better yet, you might use some tiny PIC12C508s and use them to locally
control groups of 4 bicolor LEDs, so you only have to run VCC, GND, and
serial DATA. Then you'd have plenty of room to run signals redundantly over
several adjacent threads.
-Rehmi
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Holden <
>
To: Lee Adamson <
>
Cc: 
<>
Date: Monday, January 04, 1999 7:08 AM
Subject: Re: Wearable "Fashon" (um, yeah...)
On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Lee Adamson wrote:
> We're taking a black dress and running a strip of silver cloth down
> around it several times in a spiral. Attached to this strip will be a
> long line of SMD LEDs. There will also be a Vcc and GND line running
I'd use pin LEDs instead. As well as being cheaper, you have something to
solder to.
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