Wearable radios are coming for your clothes! The LilyPad XBee sew-on ZigBee boards just headed out for manufacture. We finished testing the final green prototype version, nudged in a few improvements and about four weeks from now they’ll be commercially available.
Pricing and source to be announced when the boards go live. For now, we can tell you they’ll definitely be purple.
Hey Rob – Congratulations! That’s good news and good timing. We should be ready to play with it when it becomes available.
Awesome! I can’t wait to get one, and in purple too!
Fantastic job* I want to be on you order list***
Has anyone come up with a use for these aside from blinking lights? Looking through Sparkfun, I see lots of stuff that might be integrated, but haven’t come up with a good use yet.
The LilyPad XBee can certainly blink lights, but there’s so much more. Several people are making sensor garments for multimedia performances. One person is creating communicative pajamas, another is working on soft toys that talk to each other. It can do all these things independently, without needing an external microcontroller.
Well, I was referring to the Lilypad in general. Those are some interesting things, and the interactive toys sounds like a GREAT idea. Do you have links for these projects?
Those projects don’t yet have links up, but we’ll definitely publish when they’re available.
hey Rob, it sounds really great! i’m currently working on an interactive wearable project and love to try out the lilypad xbee from you. please put me on your mailing list! can’t wait to place my order!
that’s great,WSN wearables a new dimension to create. God Job.