Project:ETextiles

First project is a tea brewer notifier thingy, because I always forget about how long I've left my tea to brew. The idea is to have an arduino connected up to a temperature gauge, LED, and piezo speaker. Wire would be woven into a mat, and the parts hooked in appropriately. Temp gauge would detect heat, set off a timer and the LED, then when it's done, the LED would flash and the speaker would beep. Perfect tea every time!

So far I have worked out how to do this electronically.

I have also made a pretty mat.

This was made on a rigid heddle loom, using handspun wool. I corespun the wire going through (the big chunky bits) according to my circuit design. It's all insulated wire so there won't be a huge risk of short circuits.

Things to do:

1. work out how best to join the components. I think some fine stripping of the insulation/wool will work, and maybe a hotglue/solder something something I haven't worked out yet.

2. make an identical panel without the wire, for padding/hiding the components.

3. waterproofing the components. We are talking about tea, after all.

If you're interested in finding out more, feel free to chat with me. --Liedra