Clothing Gets Computerized | Singularity Hub

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Clothing Gets Computerized

Sure those name brand threads may look good, but when was the last time they allowed you to become a walking sound and light show? The Soundie, part hoodie and part electric keyboard, is a build-it-yourself project now featured on the Instructables website. By touching the Soundie at different points and with different numbers of fingers, different pitches and lights will activate. Vary the amount of contact and you change the light and sound. It turns your hoodie into a musical instrument you can wear. Check out the video after the break.

Can your hoodie play songs?

The Soundie works by measuring voltage differences across special iron-on conductive fabric. All the information is processed by a special computer chip from Arduino called the LilyPad (more on this later). The chip then sends signals to a sound generator and LEDs. Just a little wiggle of your fingers, and you are on your way to becoming a hoodie virtuoso.

Along with augmented reality video merging , and total-body interaction media , the Soundie is part of a larger trend of immersion technologies. As complex ...

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