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    Content by Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson
    E-Textile Tailor Shop by KOBAKANT
    The following institutions have funded our research and supported our work:

    Since 2020, Hannah is guest professor of the Spiel&&Objekt Master's program at the University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch in Berlin

    From 2013-2015 Mika was a guest professor at the eLab at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee

    From July - December 2013 Hannah was a researcher at the UdK's Design Research Lab

    From 2010-2012 Mika was a guest researcher in the Smart Textiles Design Lab at The Swedish School of Textiles

    From 2009 - 2011 Hannah was a graduate student in the MIT Media Lab's High-Low Tech research group led by Leah Buechley


    In 2009 Hannah and Mika were both research fellows at the Distance Lab


    Between 2003 - 2009 Hannah and Mika were both students at Interface Cultures
    We support the Open Source Hardware movement. All our own designs published on this website are released under the Free Cultural Works definition
    Circuits and Code

    Arduino Overview

    Arduino >> http://www.arduino.cc/

    There are nice comparison on various Arduino on Arduino.cc site.

    USB : Diecimila

     
    “The Arduino Diecimila is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega168 (datasheet). It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button. It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started. ” (http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardDiecimila) I like this board a lot since it has both 5V and 3.3V out that is very useful when you are testing things with Xbee. It can be used as quick voltage regulator. Also, you can take off the chip and use it as USB-Serial converter or even use it as bootloader programmer. (Here is a useful link that shows how to burn bootloader using arduino>>http://www.geocities.jp/arduino_diecimila/bootloader/index_en.html)

    Mini 

      “The Arduino Mini is a small microcontroller board based on the ATmega168 (datasheet), intended for use on breadboards and when space is at a premium. It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 8 analog inputs, and a 16 MHz crystal oscillator. It can be programmed with the Mini USB adapter or other USB or RS232 to TTL serial adapter.” (http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardMini

    Nano

        “Arduino Nano is a surface mount breadboard embedded version with integrated USB. It is a smallest, complete, and breadboard friendly. The Nano was designed and is being produced by Gravitech.

     

    It has everything that Diecimila has (electrically) with more analog input pins and onboard +5V AREF jumper. Physically, it is missing power jack and power select jumper. Since the Nano is automatically sense and switch to the higher potential source of power, there is no need for the power select jumper. ”  (http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardNano)

    LilyPad

    “The LilyPad Arduino is a microcontroller board designed for wearables and e-textiles. It can be sewn to fabric and similarly mounted power supplies, sensors and actuators with conductive thread. The board is based on the ATmega168V (the low-power version of the ATmega168) (datasheet) or the ATmega328V (datasheet). The LilyPad Arduino was designed and developed by Leah Buechley and SparkFun Electronics.” (http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardLilyPad

    LilyPad Arduino Toolkit by Leah Buechley

    >> http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/LilyPad/

    LilyPad XBee by Kate Hartman

    >> http://lilypadxbee.katehartman.com/

    Aniomagic

    >> http://www.aniomagic.com/store/?hl=en

    LilyPadaone by Maurin Donneaud

    >> http://maurin.donneaud.free.fr/drupal/

    Blink Cricket by Fred martin

    >>

    DasyPIC by John Martin and Paul Gardiner

    >> http://www.paulgardiner.dsl.pipex.com/EiSS/eiss.html?daisypicpcbs.html

    Alternatives

    Bare Bones Board (Arduino-compatible)

      >>http://moderndevice.com/ 

    Boarduino (Arduino-compatible)

     
    >>http://www.ladyada.net/make/boarduino/ 

    Gainer

      >> http://gainer.cc/About/Hardware

    Make Controller

      >>http://www.makingthings.com/what-can-the-make-controller-do-for-me 

    Wiring

    >> http://www.wiring.org.co/hardware/index.html

    PICNIC

      “The idea is simple: take a PIC (Microchip‘s microcontroller) and connect it to an ethernet card. Write some code and get a really small and really cool webserver.” (http://picnic.sourceforge.net/)

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