Art in Electronics

Geeks are usually not known to have a keen eye for design. Leah Buechley and SparkFun Electronics prove otherwise with the LilyPad Arduino, which is an Arduino designed to be wearable and washable! In fact, SparkFun has an entire line of cute accessories that allow one to integrate the LilyPad into wearable clothing. I really love the typeface used for the product name.

 

Very interesting, and very pretty. Leah’s working at the MIT media lab, from where the projects shown in the TED videos I recently posted came from.

Here’s a great example of how Leah used the LilyPad -

There’s a neat howto as well, if you want to make something like this. Note that the ‘petals’ of the LilyPad actually double up as circuit endpoints, which can be sewn with conductive thread.