E-broidery and Construction Kits

E-broidery: Design and Fabrication of Textile-based Computing by E.R. Post and A Construction Kit for Electronic Textiles by Leah Buechley

Both these readings bring forth the making and creating aspect of wearable products. Though wearable technology is an area that is interesting and exciting to work in, the actual making of fine circuits that can be included as a part of the wearable itself is a difficult task. The idea of using a basic kit to start off with initially and then take projects into more complex circuitry is a great way to get a hand of the technology. The technicalities are well explained in the E-broidery article but seem very theoretical since I have never had a chance to work with these techniques, the maximum I have done is sew with conductive thread. These articles seem to define the crux of how the actual implementation happens and to a large extent help me clarify the technicalities of the wearable-product ideas that I have conceived.