My friend Erika makes & sells yarn (<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5268814">http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5268814</a>), so she could probably spin you some if you can find the material. If you'd like her email, contact me off-list.
<br><br>Mike<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 12, 2007 9:35 PM, Wim Lewis <<a href="mailto:wiml@hhhh.org">wiml@hhhh.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
A while ago I saw a link (probably on a MAKE-affiliated website) to<br>some pom-pom shaped touch lightswitches made from conductive yarn[1].<br>Pretty neat, but although the company[2] is in Seattle there doesn't<br>seem to be a way to buy the stuff except in "pom-pom light switch
<br>kits"[3]. More recently I saw some of their switches (but not the pom-<br>poms) at the Cephalopod Appreciation Society do[4]. They work pretty<br>well and the conductive fluff is soft --- it doesn't feel wiry,
<br>although apparently it's made by weaving very fine wire into the<br>thread, rather than by some sort of conductive coating treatment. But<br>the other day I noticed that SparkFun (which sells random hard-to-<br>find electronic parts) is now selling spools of conductive thread[5].
<br>I don't know if it's the same stuff, but it seems like something fun<br>to experiment with.<br><br>FWIW, the McLeod Residence show (in Belltown) has a few nice<br>dorkbottish things (and nice non-dorkbottish things for that matter).
<br>I got a kick out of the nifty video-mosaic "mirror" in the bathroom.<br>Plus the giant squid of course.<br><br>[1] <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2005/08/fuzzy_light_swi.html" target="_blank">http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2005/08/fuzzy_light_swi.html
</a><br>[2] <a href="http://www.ifmachines.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ifmachines.com/</a><br>[3] <a href="http://www.ifmachines.com/products_puffKit.html" target="_blank">http://www.ifmachines.com/products_puffKit.html
</a><br>[4] <a href="http://blog.mcleodresidence.com/2007/11/giant-squid-ope.html" target="_blank">http://blog.mcleodresidence.com/2007/11/giant-squid-ope.html</a><br>[5] <a href="http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8544" target="_blank">
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