Re: Shirt with LEDs

Grant Stockly <grant@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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It would only be one at first with potential for additional
units later. This would be somewhat of a novelty thing for
a very small audience of vintage computer enthusiasts. ; )
I'm accustomed to paying high prices for one off items...
I wouldn't be using toggle switches. I'm still thinking
about all of the options. I appreciate all of the feedback
so far! All of you have been very helpful!

ok, without the toggles & with blinking LEDs (which you could
have random or programmed as to order for a bit more work),
i'm pretty sure it wold be doable on a good quality t-shirt, a
heavy weight sweatshirt would be even better though. sweaters
would need additional stabilizing (over what a sweatshirt
would need) & would likely stretch oddly around the edges of
the design.

My original goal was to have a working version of an
Altair. On second thought it might be just as worth while
to make the lights blink and have the switches in the
picture.

on a shirt? that *would* be something, but a wee bit
impractical (or uncomfortable)... how big is that MB?
i'm not going to say it can't be done, because i think it
can... i just don't think anyone would want to wear something
that heavy/bulky (unless you can somehow reduce the bulk of
the electronics?)

Is using an embroidery machine equipped shop still the best
option when only needing LED holes? I will try to see what
I can find about the MAKE T-Shirt. I can generate the
photo with mechanical locations in Adobe Illustrator,
assuming the embroidery machine can handle common drafting
file formats.

a machine embroidered picture would both stabilize the shirt
and keep the areas where the holes are for the LEDs from
stretching/tearing. it *will* be rather stiff due to it's
size, but it would be wearable.
i don't know enough about commercial embroidery machines to
know if they can sew the eyelets (that's the term for the
holes where the LEDs will go), but they can certainly sew
around the area so you can carefully punch the holes open with
an awl.
i think getting embroidery done as a one-off is expensive,
but i suspect you might have Altair fans that want their own
blinking sweatshirts ;)

lee
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