CRAFT Video: LilyPad Arduino 101

Get started with the LilyPad Arduino! It's a sewable microcontroller that lets you embed lights, sounds, sensors, and much more into your wearables, perfect for clothing and accessories. In this video I'll show you how to attach the LilyPad and power supply to each other, and upload a basic program that blinks an LED. Next time I'll show some more advanced topics including hooking up a sensor and using it to change the circuit's behavior.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• craftzine
• lilypad
• arduino
• electronics
• sewing
• conductive
• thread

[iggletube]

does the thread act as a wire?

[makemagazine]

Yep, pretty much!

[YamiPoyo]

Could you do the same setup using less thread i watched and you thread a lot towards the lily pad.

[makemagazine]

yeah it's the embroiderer in me, I couldn't help it! =]

[jatoha]

Wow, the hater comments are unreal for this. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, it is youtube. Thanx for the intro to the lilypad, I found it helpful.

[makemagazine]

I'm glad! Thanks for the positive comment.

[Angel0fdeathh]

this video is just what i was looking for. thank you so much! it's awesome and wonderfully clear.

For the other ignorant haters who's brains cant comprehend why LED lights and liypads are important to the fashion world, look up Hussein Chalayan and do a 5 min research - technology and fashion combined is the future bitches, so STFU.

[AsylumET]

Sewing circuits. Now that is a new one. Cool idea.

[marianina8]

Wow you did a great job. I wanted to see an instructional before purchasing the lilypad. You really explained it well and look forward to making projects with it!! thank you!

[rfengr]

MakeMagazine, can I use the Lilypad to patch-up holes in my jeans ? also, can I use the pcb board as a wheel for my robot ? ...thanks.

[teachnorth123]

Great video. Easy to understand. Would love to see something more elaborate now. :)

[MichaelDerettef]

@tarakonasxxx Ugly? You (and all the rest like you) don't know what is beautiful, what is ugly. Nothing wrong with her (she is very nice), and besides, try to learn what really matters, try to see deeper than just the outer shell.

[MichaelDerettef]

Very nice! Thank you...

[faisalhok]

Thank you. It was a good starting tutorial :)

[mgregggphone]

Great video.

Why do you not solder the thread down to the arduinos pads after you hook things up?

[mgregggphone]

@fennecfanatic The arduino outputs are current limited.

[mgregggphone]

@91thpe this thread is a lot more flexible than normal wire. Normal wire will break a lot sooner than this stuff will.