3,
The SockPod
It's a soft circuit.
And some beading.
on top of a hack.
And it plays your favorite tunes while hanging around your neck or head or waist or other way you want to wear it.
2. Materials
PLUS: (details page on these needed)
- Pair of socks
- any lenght you want your final piece to be
- or any other piece of fabric you want to extend then pod onto
- Sewing Machine or hand stitching tools
- Fabric Glue
- Buttons or Switches for extensions
- get what you need to design your own push buttons
- or to hide over Digikey small ones
- Pair of socks
3. Skills required
- Basic Soldering
- Basic stitching
- Beading electroncis -see the example with Leds.
- MP3 player hacks
4. Instructions
-A. Hack a player or make a player
Get an existing player you found
Strip it to the bare minimum
Understand how the buttons work
Hack them by soldering small beads
Test all the hacked buttons
B- Make the soft circuit that will connect the different parts of the player.
In this case, the hacked player will be controlled by buttons accessible from the other end of the long sock (which by the way is actually to socks stitched together).
Design the soft circuit you want
I simply drew 2 lines out for each button
Remember to isolate the circuit
C- Put all the parts together
The push buttons where stitched at one end of the fabric and backed with thick fabric. The other end of the fabric contains a place holder for the music player to be stiched into and its original buttons connected to the new additions.
Stitch the new buttons where you want
Put your player at the right place
Stitch the buttons one at a time
But beware of shorts
Put regular fabric over your connections
Your pod is ready for it's cover