Fabric Interfaces Tutorial: E-Textiles, Conductive Thread and Trill Craft

In this video Becky Stewart guides us through creating a fabric breakout with Trill Craft, conductive thread and e-textiles. Becky walks us through the best choice of materials, the stitching techniques which work best with when dealing with conductive thread and fabrics, and the electronic principles that will help create the most reliable interfaces.

Conductive thread links:
https://kitronik.co.uk/collections/e-...
https://www.adafruit.com/product/640
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13814

Conductive fabric links:
https://kitronik.co.uk/collections/e-...
https://www.adafruit.com/product/1168

Link to template:
https://github.com/theleadingzero/tri...

Trill Craft is a 30-channel breakout board that lets you make your own touch interfaces out of anything conductive. Trill Craft is perfect for crafting complex interfaces from conductive fabric, copper tape, metal, wire, fruit, water, and any other conductive material. Each of Trill Craft's 30 channels of capacitive sensing offer variable readings, and multiple boards can be chained together to create interfaces with hundreds of channels of capacitive touch. Trill Craft comes with an unsoldered right angle pin header for the I2C pins so you can connect the board to Bela or your system of choice.

http://shop.bela.io/trill

Becky Stewart is a Lecturer in the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London. She works with e-textiles and signal processing to build interactive, body-centric wearable computing systems. These systems often incorporate performance, fashion, music and/or design.

http://theleadingzero.com/