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Electronic textiles (e-textiles) involve the combination of electronics and textiles to form "smart" textile products. It is an emerging technology so learning it would be beneficial and chances to get opportunities in the field of wearables fashion technology. This book presents every essential to get you into the world of developing e-textiles. There are many e-textile development platforms available in the market. Among them, this book uses Wearic smart textile kit which is a modular prototyping platform to present projects and experiments that you can build easily and quickly. The BBC micro:bit is used as the microcontroller for all the projects and all the code presented are build using MakeCode blocks: an easy-to-use visual programming language. The projects/experiments presented in this book require no soldering but requires wiring using alligator cables.

You will:

  • How to apply electronics to wearables/ garments/ fabrics
  • Programming with the BBC micro:bit
  • Add lights to your wearables using LED textiles
    • Use 'heating textiles' with garments to keep your body warm
  • Use 'textile push buttons' to actuate something attached to your wearables
    • Use 'textile pressure sensors' to enable garments to sense touch and pressure
  • Use 'textile wetness sensors' to detect water and some other liquids
    • Use Bluetooth Low Energy to send sensor data to mobile apps.



    Autorentext
    Pradeeka Seneviratne is a software engineer with over 10 years of experience in computer programming and systems design. He is an expert in the development of Arduino and Raspberry Pi-based embedded systems and is currently a full-time embedded software engineer working with embedded systems and highly scalable technologies. Previously, Pradeeka worked as a software engineer for several IT infrastructure and technology servicing companies.


    Zusammenfassung
    Electronic textiles (e-textiles) involves the combination of electronics and textiles to form "smart" textile products. It is an emerging technology with immense opportunities in the field of wearables fashion technology. And while there are many e-textile development platforms available on the market, this book uses the Wearic smart textile kit, a modular prototyping platform, to get you building projects and experiments easily and quickly.

    This book presents the essential skills required to get started developing e-textiles. The code presented is built using MakeCode blocks, an easy-to-use visual programming language. You'll use the BBC micro:bit microcontroller for all the projects, and with few exceptions, they require no soldering and wiring. In the end, you'll be able to apply and sew electronics to wearables, garments, and fabrics in this emerging technology.

    Beginning e-Textile Development presents the essential components to get you started with developing e-textiles. 

    What You'll Learn
    • Program with the BBC micro:bit
    • Add lights to your wearables using LED textiles
    • Use different textile sensors to measure heat, detect water, actuate attachments, and enable sense touch and pressure
    • Actuate attachments on wearables with muscle activity and heartbeat
    • Make chemistry-based color-changing fabrics using thermochromic pigments
    • Utilize Bluetooth Low Energy to send sensor data to mobile apps and WiFi to send sensor data to the ThingSpeak IoT analytics platform service
    Who This Book Is For

    Beginners to the e-textile industry seeking a comprehensive toolkit. Fashion designers, Makers, engineers, scientists, and students can all benefit from this book.


    Inhalt
    Chapter 1. Getting Started
    Chapter Goal: This chapter will get you started with your Wearic Smart Textiles kit. It will also set the stage for the experiments and projects you will find in the following chapters. You will learn how to program the microcontroller using the Arduino IDE and MakeCode blocks.
    •Introduction to the wearable electronics
    •Introduction to the Wearic Smart Textiles kit
    •Setting up the development environment
    •Writing your first program to control the onboard LED

    Chapter 2. Making Wearables Attractive and Visible Using Lights
    Chapter Goal: In this chapter, you will learn how to use the Wearic LED textile to add lights to your wearables. LEDs are a beautiful way to add light to wearable tech garments. Different lighting effects make your textile more attractive and highly visible. Sometimes LEDs use as indicators. You will learn basic sewing skills with conductive threads, basic electronics, and basic programming (to create different lighting effects). The skills you gain by this chapter will help you to follow the rest of the chapters.
    •Learn about the LED textile in detail
    •Applications in fashion and other industries
    •Testing: finding LED polarity, Use batteries and wires to test LEDs
    •Sewing LEDs onto the LED textile
    •Snapping LED textile to the expansion board
    •Programming: Creating light effects (i.e: blinking both LEDs, toggle LEDs, fading)
    •Controlling other types of LEDs (RGB, NeoPixels, etc)

    Chapter 3. Physical Controlling with Buttons
    Chapter Goal: In this chapter, you will learn how to use the Wearic Push-button textile to your wearables. A push-button textile consists of two soft-push buttons.  By programming the microcontroller these buttons can be used to control actuators such as LEDs, heating textiles, wet textiles, etc. The skills you gain by this chapter will help you to follow the rest of the chapters.
    •Learn about the Push button textile
    •Applications in the fashion industry
    •Snapping Push-button textile to the expansion board
    •Programming: learning about different button status by controlling LEDS

    Chapter 4. Staying Warm
    Chapter Goal: In this chapter, you will learn how to use the Wearic Heating textile to keep your wearables warm. You will learn various techniques on how to program the heated textile to make different heating effects/experiences. By following this chapter the reader will able to make textiles by adding heating textiles, sensors, and LEDs (actuators).
    •Learn about the 'Heating textile' in detail
    •Alternatives/ Industrial applications
    •Testing: Use batteries and wires to test the heating textile
    •Snapping Heating textile to the expansion board
    •Programming: Controlling heating textile through the microcontroller
    •Programming: Using PWM to control the heating textile.
    •Programming: Using a feedback mechanism to keep the temperature at a specific level using a temperature sensor.
    •Programming: Putting them all together to build a heated mat with feedback LEDs.

    Chapter 5. Your Second Skin
    Chapter Goal: In this chapter, you will learn how to use the Wearic textile pressure sensor to enable your wearable touch and pressure-sensitive. By following this chapter the reader will able to make textiles by adding pressure-sensitive textiles, sensors, and actuators.
    •Learn about the 'Textile pressure sensor' in detail.
    •Alternatives / Applications in fashion tech / Applications in medical
    •Snapping textile pressure sensor to the expansion board.
    •Programming: Sensing pressure, low and high-pressure levels
    •Programm…
    Titel
    Beginning e-Textile Development
    Untertitel
    Prototyping e-Textiles with Wearic Smart Textiles Kit and the BBC micro:bit
    Autor
    Pradeeka Seneviratne
    EAN
    9781484262610
    Format
    E-Book (pdf)
    Hersteller
    Apress
    Genre
    Sachbuch
    Veröffentlichung
    02.11.2020
    Digitaler Kopierschutz
    Wasserzeichen
    Dateigrösse
    14.31 MB
    Anzahl Seiten
    238