[dorkbotsea-blabber] Conductive thread

[Mike Payson]

My friend Erika makes & sells yarn (
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5268814), so she could probably spin
you some if you can find the material. If you'd like her email, contact me
off-list.

Mike

On Dec 12, 2007 9:35 PM, Wim Lewis <wiml at hhhh.org> wrote:

> A while ago I saw a link (probably on a MAKE-affiliated website) to
> some pom-pom shaped touch lightswitches made from conductive yarn[1].
> Pretty neat, but although the company[2] is in Seattle there doesn't
> seem to be a way to buy the stuff except in "pom-pom light switch
> kits"[3]. More recently I saw some of their switches (but not the pom-
> poms) at the Cephalopod Appreciation Society do[4]. They work pretty
> well and the conductive fluff is soft --- it doesn't feel wiry,
> although apparently it's made by weaving very fine wire into the
> thread, rather than by some sort of conductive coating treatment. But
> the other day I noticed that SparkFun (which sells random hard-to-
> find electronic parts) is now selling spools of conductive thread[5].
> I don't know if it's the same stuff, but it seems like something fun
> to experiment with.
>
> FWIW, the McLeod Residence show (in Belltown) has a few nice
> dorkbottish things (and nice non-dorkbottish things for that matter).
> I got a kick out of the nifty video-mosaic "mirror" in the bathroom.
> Plus the giant squid of course.
>
> [1]  http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2005/08/fuzzy_light_swi.html
> [2]  http://www.ifmachines.com/
> [3]  http://www.ifmachines.com/products_puffKit.html
> [4]  http://blog.mcleodresidence.com/2007/11/giant-squid-ope.html
> [5]  http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8544
>
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