fio makes things

I’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.