Adafruit Wearables Materials

Liquid Crystal Light Valve - LCD Controllable Black-out Panel [AF-3330]

What do you get when you power a layer of liquid crystal material sandwiched between two sheets of glass? A Liquid Crystal Light Valve (a.k.a a LCD Controllable Black-out Panel)! They're often used for electric welding helmets because th...

Soft Potentiometer Kit from PlugWear [AF-2273]

Get it by Tuesday, Dec 12th

This soft potentiometer is an interesting way to add an adjustable resistor / slide potentiometer to your wearable. You can use it to adjust the brightness of an LED, or as a sensor input to your Flora or Gemma. When the ring slides up a...

Flex PCB Material - Pyralux - 6 by 6 Square [AC 352500EY] [AF-1894]

Finally, the conductive material you've known you wanted but never knew you could have, its a sheet of flex PCB material! This is the stuff used to make flexible circuits, but raw and unetched. You can treat it just like 1 oz copper cl...

3M Z-Axis Conductive Tape 9703 - 2x6 (50mm x 150mm) Strip [AF-1656]

Get it by Thursday, Dec 21st

When Bunnie showed up at Adafruit with the prototype for his Chibitronics Circuit Stickers we were all like "How on earth does that work?" and he was all like "Z-Axis tape - Its amazing!" And we agreed, so we decided to get some in our M...

Conductive thread ribbon cable - Black - 1 yard [AF-1424]

This lightweight, flexible fabric ribbon cable contains four channels of conductive thread, perfect for wiring up wearables where flexibility is key. Use it to connect your conductive fabric gamepad to your microcontroller or computer!...

Fabric Ribbon 4-Channel Wire - 1 yard [AF-1373]

This lightweight, flexible fabric ribbon channel contains four individual wires, perfect for wiring up wearables where flexibility is key. This ribbon has 4 x 28AWG stranded-core wires, easy to solder but also quite flexible. There's no ...

Knit Jersey Conductive Fabric - 20cm square [AF-1364]

This knit jersey conductive fabric is 63% cotton, 35% silver yarn and 2% spandex. Use small pieces for soft switches, plush keypads, capacitive touch sensors, and other textile interfaces. It's very soft and matte, perfect for ironing ...

Pressure-Sensitive Conductive Sheet (Velostat/Linqstat) [AF-1361]

Get it by Tuesday, Dec 12th

This conductive material (also known as "Velostat" or "Linqstat") is a nice addition for your wearable/sensor hacking toolkit. It's pressure-sensitive: squeezing it will reduce the resistance, so it's handy for making flexible sensors. A...

Conductive Hook Loop Tape - 3 long [AF-1324]

Get it by Tuesday, Dec 12th

Conductive hook & loop tape is just like the stuff you've seen on jackets, clothes, shoes, and bags, but is coated with silver to make it fully conductive. Originally this was designed to the manufacture of static-safe clothing, but its ...

Stainless Steel Conductive Ribbon - 5mm wide 1 meter long [AF-1244]

Get it by Tuesday, Dec 12th

This woven conductive ribbon is great for powering lots of LEDs in a wearable project. It's thin, strong, smooth, and made completely of 316L stainless steel. It plays nice with our stainless conductive thread and is very flexible, jus...