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Fashionable Technology by Sabine Seymour DIANA ENG: Fashion Nerd — E-Textile Swatch Exchange YEAR OF INVENTION: 2017CREDITS: BeamDIMENSIONS: 150 x 110 mm With a rectangular piece of carbon non woven, a microcontroller ATtiny85, with two analog inputs and 4 LED’s a device can be made which indicates on which quadrangle of the carbon a droplet of water has been fallen. Over the rectangular piece of carbon non woven a voltage is applied. This swatch is a micro invention more than design. main material: carbon non woven, high resistance type eg Eeonyx 50-70k (i still love the summercamp doggy bag of 2013!) used other materials: linen, aluminum (cheap from the supermarket), copper sheet on adhesive paper (expensive), Kapton adhesive tape, electric wire etc for the circuit, 4 smd LED’s, ATtiny85 The smd LED’s farnell.nl: the simple text was emboridered using a Janome sewing machine. the copper was cut using a Silhouette Portrait for step 20 problem solving: Wire Glue, Electric Paint circuit

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