Pixely clothing

[Kieran O'Neill]

Have any of you guys considered making a tshirt, where the entire outside is covered in pixels (or at least a patch on a chest to start with). Then, users can (somehow through USB or another method) upload their own images to be displayed on the tshirts.

This would create fully customisable clothing - which is probably the future of fashion.

Is something like this possible or am I dreaming? I'm more a software guy and so this is very much a hardware project.

Kieran

[Paul Crouch]

Not quite what you had in mind, but take a look at this: http://www.firebox.com/product/1458?itc=81&src_t=nwt&src_id=166

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[Kieran O'Neill]

Thats cool, so could we build a tshirt where we could upload images to it which would display? The idea being you could wear the same tshirt everyday, but keep changing the image (hygiene notwithstanding!). I think tshirts with customisable images displayed would be pretty cool. Then, if you could cover the whole tshirt in pixels, you could create your tshirts in paint everyday :)

I think that would be fun to make (and would sell!). My mate owns Firebox.com so could easily get it sold on there to start with.

K

[Daryl Bradley]

this type of thing? ..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgyKmwmayBk

[Kieran O'Neill]

Wow, thats on another level to what I was thinking. Very cool!

[Simon Ford]

You could still do some pretty cool stuff with only e.g.10x10 pixels.
Its limiting but it'd probably lead to some really interesting things;
like what about crowds of people!

I wonder if there is any interesting/cheap ways to build something
like this if you don't get caught up worrying about LCD style high res/
colour? E.g. the pixels could be LEDs, but there are probably other
interesting ways to make pixels too (chemical, fibre optic,
electromagnetic, other "smart" materials?? need some random
inspriation here i think). I saw a nice example where a wall of pixels
was made of wooden blocks on servos :) Don't forget scan based imaging
too.

There is also Persistence of Vision stuff e.g. a POV shoe/trouser leg/
glove. But i think it'd be cooler to come up with some form of pixel/
scan based surface.

I think a novel pixel/scan design is probably the really interesting
thing, so probably looking to borrow from some technology of a totally
unrelated field!

[Henry Gomersall]

On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 05:48 -0800, Simon Ford wrote:
> You could still do some pretty cool stuff with only e.g.10x10 pixels.
> Its limiting but it'd probably lead to some really interesting things;
> like what about crowds of people!

I bet those spectrum analyser ts can be hacked to drive the displays
with something custom.

hen
>

[Simon Ford]

Example pixel shirt here: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/%7Ebuechley/diy/diy_tank.html

Her site has lots of stuff on it which feels pretty much state-of-the-
diy-art for this kind of thing, so is probably a good starting point
(e.g. conductive thread).

For LEDs, you can get really small surface mount ones, and i'd imagine
they are bright enough to mount behind a material rather on top of it
which might give a look better than "look at my elecronics project
glued to my tshirt.

In fact, choosing clothing with a heavyweight material/style rather
than a cheap tshirt would probably make this easier. How about a
puffer jacket/vest where each panel can light up :)

Simon