28/02/2008
conductive yarn and arduino lillypad are arrived
With conductive yarn you can embed electronics- transfers power or uses as heating elements cause of high restistance between 200 ohm (yarn 2ply) and 34 ohm (4ply yarn) per foot.
For technical detail click Conductive_text_10.pdf or order it from sparkfun.com .
This yarn made of acrilic fibres with due 15% nickel-copper alloy after galvanic treatment.
To control the input output of my interactive clothes I uses a arduino lilypad- also from sparkfun.com
It has a 5 Volt in- and output. powered by a “AAA-battery”.I downloaded and burned the bootloader for the ATmega168 from arduino.cc.
to program and work with the lillypad I build this USB interface connected with 5v power supplie.,.GND TX and RX 