5. E-Textiles and Wearables I

Continuing with the idea of creating a collection of sustainable sneakers and using innovative techniques, this week I focused on creating some e-laces. The process includes from the creation of the same way, color and material, to the addition of an electronic circuit and LED devices.

Useful links

• Lecture
• Review
• Adafruit

Assigment

Creation of laces - Eurecat

Thanks to the fact that we had to work on parts of our project in Eurecat, I was able to create my own completely personalized laces. In the photos you can see parts of the creation process with special spinning machines.

Creation of holding piece for laces

Since everything is in the details, I also decided to create a piece that would hold part of the laces and work as a holder to the battery. This was not only printed on the 3D machine, as you see in the photos, and then in the final project I also used it but in a version with crystals.

Testing

Materials - [3PLY Conductive Thread - stainless steel fibers] (https://learn.adafruit.com/conductive-thread) - Neopixel

The resistance of 3 ply thread for components is 10 ohms per foot.

Here the DC circuit; the battery provides the electricity that powers the LEDs. In this instance, our power supply is the battery, and our load is the LEDs.

As you can see, the 3 ply thread inside the laces connects the battery's positive terminal to the LED. Additionally, the other part of the laces connects the battery's negative terminal to the LEDs. A loop forms when power moves from the power source to the load and back. We refer to this circuit as closed as it is an entire, continuous loop. No power will flow through the circuit if there is a break in the loop so make sure that any part of your circuit is open.

E-laces with leds