Email-Counting Shirt

Craft & Design

Matt Mets @ Make: Online writes:

Chris and Madeleine Ball wrote in to share their email-counting t-shirt. Using some parts that they got from the Sparkfun Free Day, they added an LED display to the front of the shirt, that displays a count of the user’s unread email. An Android phone continuously checks the user’s inbox for new messages, then relays the current count over Bluetooth to a Lilypad Arduino on the shirt, which then lights up the correct LEDs. Neat!

In the Maker Shed:

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Lilypad E-Sewing Kit

6 thoughts on “Email-Counting Shirt

  1. quakecountry says:

    VERY cool! Thank you both.

  2. megegreap says:

    Hwantto say thank you for this interesting article! =) Peace, Joy.

  3. cheap lasix says:

    Good morning, thx for the blog post

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Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

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