[Eli] is sharing the building details on her fabric based display. For lack of a better name she’s calling this a fabric Lite-Brite. This is because LEDs can be added anywhere to spell out a message or create a simple drawing.
The device consists of a positive bus of conductive thread sewn onto a regular piece of fabric. A second piece of fabric separates this from a ground plane made of conductive fabric. The LED leads are then bent into a spiral and can easily be wrapped around the appropriate part of the conductor.
We’re happy to see this creative design coming from a hacker that frequents a hackerspace; Pumping Station One in Chicago. This would be a wonderful application for banners or flags at hackerspace events.
I bet you could reconfigure an older printer to place the LEDs automatically. Something like an old dot matrix out of date cad plotter. Not quite printable LEDs but still pretty sweet.
edit: “dot matrix or out of date cad plotter.”
links dont work?
Links work.
links do not work
They work fine for me? Hmm…
links work
links “work”, their server is just incredibly bogged down. i can ping it just fine, but accessing the site usually results in a timeout
Is the server an Arduino?
Try it again; we upgraded :).
That is a really neat idea. I can think of a load of great uses for that LED fabric display.
Must be the conductive fabric offers the resistance needed for current limiting?