mittens prototype
- August 18, 2009I’ve gotten a bit impatient with learning how to knit mittens from scratch, and have decided to make some prototypes out of my already existing gloves. I decided to knit some conductive patches and attach them to the gloves.
This is how I make my little conductive knitted patches. Once I get a couple of rows in, I continue knitting in the same way, just adding conductive thread in with the yarn.
This is what it looks like a couple of stitches in…
And a few rows in..
I then stop knitting with the conductive thread for the last couple of rows, to make it look more tidy.
Here’s what they look like finished.
I then sewn them onto to the mittens, on the palm.
They’re powered by an arduino at the moment, here’s the circuit that i used to prototype them, one arm positive, one negative.
Here’s a video of the prototype working, the LED is a little dim, but when the hands are pressed together it lights up.
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Could this technique be used to create a heater in the mitt, my old iPod mini keeps losing power and I think it’s b/c the battery is cold b/c sometimes I can re-start it it I warm it up with my hands… Any ideas?
@Corynne Oehmen
That’s an interesting idea, unfortunately I’m not sure how well conductive thread would conduct heat, I haven’t seen any examples of it being done either, so I’m not sure how to do it. Sorry!
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[...] who did not see me squealing like the little girl I am on my twitter feed a little while back, my conductive mittens prototype was featured on Fashioning Technology and [...]