…not really up to date…
BLOGS
>> Adafruit Industries
>> EduWear
>> Fashioning Technology
>> Hack a Day
>> Electronic Crafts
>> Make Magazine Blog
>> Talk2myShirt
>> Twenty1f: fashion for the 21st century
DOCUMENTATION
>> Arduino
>> Burda Style
>> Eduwear
>> Instructables
>> Making Things Talk
>> Max/MSP
>> Pachube
>> Processing
>> Protolab
>> Sensorwiki
RESEARCH
>> CNMAT
>> Frauenhofen IZM: Texlab
>> Hexagram Institute
>> High-Low Tech
>> TITV Greiz
>> V2
INDIVIDUALS
>> Fionnuala Murphy
>> Jenny Chowdhury
>> Joey Berzowska
>> Kate Heartman
>> Katherine Moriwaki
>> Leah Buechley
>> Lucy Orta
>> Maggie Orth
>> Syuzi Pakhchyan
>> Valerie Lamontgne
FOR SALE
>> Adafruit Industries
>> All Electronics (USA)
>> Cornfield Electronics
>> Curious Inventor
>> Digikey (USA)
>> Digi (USA)
>> Elektronik Laden (Sparkfun for sale in Germany!)
>> Etsy
>> Farnell (EU)
>> Images - Scientific Instruments (USA)
>> International Fashion Machines
>> JoAnn fabric and craft (USA)
>> Modulor (Craft materials including neoprene, Germany)
>> Sedochemicals (Neoprene, Germany)
>> Oomlaut
>> Plug and Wear (Italy)
>> Sparkfun (USA)
>> RS (EU)
>> Conrad (EU)
LOCAL ELECTRONICS
We would like to compile a list of local electronics stores across the world. If you know of a local (physical) store in your area that you would recommend for it’s sock and service then please email us a link and the location so we can add it to this list. Thanks!
>> Aigner (Linz, AT)
>> SEGOR-electronics GmbH (Berlin, DE)
>> Huebner Elektronik (Erfurt, Germany)
EVENTS
>> Maker Faire
>> Second Skin
READING
>> E-broidery: Design and Fabrication of Textile-based Computing
E. R. Post, M. Orth, P. R. Russo, N. Gershenfeld, MIT Media Laboratory,
Published in the IBM Systems Journal, v. 39 pp. 840-860 (2000)
Download: http://web.media.mit.edu/~rehmi/pdf/post-isj393-part3.pdf
>> Smart Fabric, or Washable Computing
E. Rehmi Post, Maggie Orth, MIT Media Laboratory
Link: http://web.media.mit.edu/~rehmi/fabric/index.html
>> Smart Fabric, or “Wearable Clothing”
E. R. Post, M. Orth; First Intl. Symp. on Wearable Computers, 13-14 Oct 1997 pp. 167-168
Link: http://web.media.mit.edu/~rehmi/pdf/00629937.pdf
>> Soft Computation through Conductive Textiles
Joanna Berzowska, Marguerite Bromley
Link: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xslabs.net%2Fpapers%2Fiffti07-berzowska-AQ.pdf&ei=P1aSStu1NcyTjAfZ4bT0DQ&usg=AFQjCNEkMbf9wo4NBdT_jRkLflpz2oMheQ
>> E-broidery: An Infrastructure for Washable Computing
Ernest Rehmatulla Post, MIT, 1996
Download: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.media.mit.edu%2Fphysics%2Fpublications%2Ftheses%2F99.02.post.pdf&ei=gZKSSr7yIKWEjAe2ofDjDQ&usg=AFQjCNH1od0GWG1WjM9G8yuyhOgq8dcMrg
>> Integrated Microeletronics for Smart Textiles
Friedrich Wachter, Ambient Intelligence WS 06/07
Download: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=6&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sti-innsbruck.at%2Ffileadmin%2Fdocuments%2Fcourses200607%2Fambient-intelligence%2Fami-slides-19_Wachter_Integrated_Microeletronics_for_Smart_Textiles.pdf&ei=gZKSSr7yIKWEjAe2ofDjDQ&usg=AFQjCNHvRWvDTOisjf3ItVms9pejMbr7gw
>> Leah Buechley’s publications
Link: http://thehighlowtech.com/publications/publications.html
>> How Computer Clothing Works, by Kevin Bonsor
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/computer-clothing.htm/printable
>> Wikipedia: Conductive Textiles
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conductive_textile
>> The Case for Working With Your Hands
New York Times article
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html?_r=1&emc=eta1