This document provides information about a workshop on wearable technology. It discusses what wearables and wearable electronics are, including e-textiles, smart textiles, and fashionable technology. It then covers various components and materials used to create wearables, such as sensors, microcontrollers, batteries, lights, and fabrics. The document provides examples of wearable projects and lists suppliers for electronic and crafting components and tools needed to make wearables.

1. WEARABLES WORKSHOP
PComp Help Session x Soft Club

2. WHAT IS
WEARABLE

3. WEARABLES
E-TEXTILES
SMART-TEXTILES
FASHIONABLE TECHNOLOGY
SOFT CIRCUITRYWEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
WEARABLE ELECTRONICS

4. WEARABLE

5. ELECTRONICS WEARABLE ELECTRONICS
E-textiles, smart textiles

6. SENSORY TECHNOLOGY

7. FASHION & TECHNOLOGY

8. WHAT IS WEARABLE?

9. SEEING & MEDIATED REALITY

10. NARRATIVE CLIP

11. HEARING & FEELING/TOUCHING

12. TACTILU
Feel touch from
loved one who is
away

13. EMBRACE-ME

14. IDENTITY

15. WELLBEING

16. INTIMACY & COMMUNICATION

17. TIME,SPACE,LOCATION&DISTANCE
Take me home, GPS shoes

18. FASHION DILEMMAS

19. MATERIALS

20. TECHNOLOGY

21. SOLDERING

22. SOFT CIRCUITRY
Becky Stern’s Lilypad Embroidery

23. >> SOFT CLUB

24. PCB
Printed Circuit Board

25. 3D PRINTING / CASTING

26. Lilypad Flora
ER ✔

27. Arduino Gemma
Adafruit Gemma

28. LightBlue BeanAdafruit Feather Bluefruit LE

29. FLORA BLUEFRUIT LE ER ✔

30. LED SEQUINS ER ✔

31. NEOPIXELS ER ✔

32. VIBRATION MOTOR

33. ACCELEROMETER ER ✔

34. FORCE SENSOR

35. MICROPHONE AMPLIFIER
➤ To sense amplified sound

36. MUSCLE SENSOR
➤ Wiring: + to 3.3V, - to GND, SIG to A0
➤ electrodes
➤ AnalogRead
➤ We are conductive!

37. PULSE SENSOR

38. STRETCH SENSOR
➤ ER ✔

39. LIPO BATTERY
➤ Rechargeable

40. COIN CELL BATTERY AND HOLDER

41. SHORT WIRE ALLIGATOR CLIPS

42. GETTING STARTED WITH FLORA
➤ Atmega32u4 (Leonardo)
➤ 3.3V
➤ Lipo Battery Port
➤ Micro USB Port
➤ Power Switch
➤ Voltage Regulator (3.5V-9V >> 3V-5V)
➤ on board LED on Pin 7
➤ on board NeoPixel on Pin 8
➤ Arduino >> Tools >> Board >> Board Manager

43. PINOUT DIAGRAM

44. SEWABLE NEOPIXELS

45. FLORA SENSOR
➤ Accelerometer
➤ Gyroscope
➤ Compass
➤ Light
➤ UV
➤ Color
➤ GPS

46. FLORA BLUEFRUIT LE
➤ RX >> Flora TX
➤ TX >> Flora RX
➤ CMD/DATA switch

47. BLUE FRUIT CONFIGURING FOR FLORA

48. FLORA NEOPIXEL

49. AFTER READING
➤ The Next Black

50. TOOLS AND COMPONENTS
Adafruit - electronic components and tools (werarable electronics, conductive fabrics
and threads)
Sparkfun - electronic components (some other components)
Tinkersphere - electronics supplies
LittleBits - modular electronics
Amazon - electronic tools and crafting tools
LessEMF.com - Conductive fabrics

51. SEWING AND CRAFTING
Mood Fabrics - fashion fabrics, supplies for wearables
B&J Fabrics - fabrics, supplies for wearables
Spandex World - spandex
M&J Trimmings - buttons, zippers, fasteners…
Canal Rubber - Latex, foam
Lion Brand Studio - Yarn