LilyPad eSewing

Lily Pad eSewing

Dr. Leah Buechley invented the lily pad. You can read more about her here: http://leahbuechley.com/ She is the author of Sew Electric and Textile Messages. You will find both of these books in our LMC!

What Are Sewable Electronics?

Sewable electronics combine traditional craft processes (sewing, fashion design, and textile design) with electrical engineering, computer science, and hardware skills.

With sewable electronics, you can create e-textiles (electronic textiles), which are often wearable, flexible projects that look less like traditional electronics and more like craft and art projects. Many e-textile projects replace wiring with flexible conductive materials such as conductive thread and fabric. For the projects in this guide, we will be sewing circuits together with conductive thread.