Looking for a fun wearable electronics project? While you can buy specific fabric and conductive thread for your projects, sometimes you can even find conductive fabric where you might not expect it!
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.
Another funny quirk is that some fabrics are only conductive in one direction! Which could make for a really cool project that seemingly defies conventional wiring — or you can sew a conductive thread perpendicular to the continuity to connect it all together.
Of course if you wanna get really fancy you could make a fabric speaker… or even a fabric display!
sooo there’s a diode fabric? fuck yeah!
ooohhh man this gives me some crazy ideas! First person to make a diode steering logic circuit out of a shirt wins.
“Another funny quirk is that some fabrics are only conductive in one direction!”
Like diode fabric or only on one side? Cause if it’s the first thing, that needs some explanation.
Nevermind, I get it. Conductive fibers running the length but not the width. There I go thinking one dimensionally again.
Not diode fabric, it’s veroboard/stripboard fabric!
Yeah, I thought that at first too. The author probably should have used the word “dimension” instead of “direction”. Or maybe “anisotropically conductive” :)
…The paragraph makes it pretty clear.
So basically she found only one fabric and a decoration strip that had a single fiber..
Why always a video?
Even for things that could’ve been covered better by a few sentences and a single picture?
This time there is an excuse: OP’s cuteness! Always two thumbs up for a multimeter wielding girl.
Because, we’re nerds, as she’s a girl!
That’s why I watch Dave those muscles are to die for. mmmmmhmm.
Video is now easier to use than choosing pictures and writing a blog post.
Because she’s fun to look at. DUH!
Am I the only one who read “testicles”?
I wa scared for am Moment there….
What would you do if you found out one of your testicles was conductive? Perhaps some interactive wearables?
They are both conductive of course. Unless you have implants made from silicon maybe?
Make that silicone, although.. maybe some rich guy in silicon valley or SF had some special custom ones made out of silicon
You do know that some people already connect wires to their, aherm, parts?
You just need the right equipment. With a Megohmmeter, most fabrics are conductive, plain cotton was measured by me in the 100 GOhm range (with probes a few cm apart)
Isn’t that just the moisture of the air getting in there? Or the salty sweat?