Are you interested in learning about beginner sewing circuits? Wanna transfer that knowledge to your Makey Makey?

Check out my latest Instructables: Conductive Jelly Donuts: A Sewing Circuits Primer

With this guide you can teach your students to sew a simple circuit, sew a battery pack, and even sew a conductive jelly donut as a switch. (For your LED with or without the Makey Makey!)

Like Sewing Circuits?

Want more help with this? Here are some other links from my blog and others!

• Sewing Circuits at Denton Public Library
• Introduction to Sewing Circuits Affordably
• Sewing with Chibitronics
• How to Get What You Want: Kobakant
• A few great sewing circuit books:
  • Sew Electric by Leah Buechley and Kanjun Qui -Sewing and Programming with Lilypad!
  • Sparkfun Firefly Kit – Sew with a pre-programmed microcontroller
  • Tips on sewing with conductive thread by Sparkfun
  • Sparkfun help on sewing with regular LEDs
  • Soft Circuits: Crafting e-Fashion with DIY Electronics by Dr. Peppler et al – Great resource for educators that want to teach systems thinking (Includes Design Challenge cards)
  • Plus, our Big Book of Makerspace Projects has a full chapter of sewing circuits that range from very simple to very complex!
  • Helen Leigh’s Crafty Kids Guide to DIY Electronics
  • Just found out about this one and have it on my list to review! From Hackspace: Wearable Tech Projects

What are your favorite resources! Let me know in the comments below!