[Wei Chieh Shih] truly moves the needle when it pertains to wearable technology. His textile style job entitled I Am extremely delighted I hope You Are Too is a striking marriage of masterful hand embroidery, delicate circuitry, as well as cautious programming.
[Wei] is utilizing an Arduino micro to drive a matrix of surface-mount LEDs in the Hello, world video, which is a ramp-up to the scrolling text version that’s in development now finished. That full version is part of his residency job at Arquetopia in Oaxaca, Mexico as well as screens snippets of emails from his past relationships. It’s huge, with several matrices as big as 8×25 pixels!
No develop notes might be discovered for this or any type of of [Wei]’s similar projects, such as this awesomely hazardous 200 laser diode jacket or this eerily lovely light installation on Taiwan’s north beach. based on the pictures, our conjecture is that he is utilizing normal 6-strand embroidery floss to make stem or half cross-stitches on all the paths. He then runs extremely thin, versatile conductor beneath the channel of stitches as well as solders the wires to the element pads.
If [Wei] wants one more method to wear his heart on his sleeve, he might check out these dynamic LED garments hacks.
Update: [Wei] has completed this project, as well as has a lot more info offered at his Behance site.
[via adafruit]