Ready to take your craft projects to the next level? With "smart" materials, you can create accessories, housewares, and toys that light up, make sounds, or do even more.
Fashioning Technology offers jargon-free primers and lots of how-to projects that will have you making -- and even wearing -- functional works of art. This book demonstrates how to blend sewing and assembly techniques with traditional electronics to assemble simple circuits using conductive thread, solder joints for snaps, and switches for buttons.
Get started sewing soft circuits right away with Salt n’ Peanut! When their trunks touch, the LED illuminates. Salt acts as the power source to illuminate Peanut’s LED. When they separate, the LED turns off.
