[personal profile] chebe
Okay, I'm a little too excited, but I've just discovered new Arduino Lilypad components on Spark Fun! If you reckon my trick with the elastic is too tricky you can now buy a Lilypad coin-cell holder. There's also a battery connect and Simple Power, a JST connector, and JST connector with slide switch and space to add resistor, respectively.

Then in the world of LEDs, we now have Red, Green, Yellow, and Blue Lilypad sewable surface-mount LEDs (a big improvement on just White), but also, you can buy packs of the boards so you can add any 5mm LED you want yourself!



What's really exciting in a new Lilypad itself; the Simple Board. It's smaller the same size, has less holes, and you can plug the LiPo batteries right into it.

And, to really put the icing on the cake, they have a Lilypad Basics Workshop kit! If you want to try something similar but non-Lilypad there's even a Schemer kit like this Sapphire Blue Bracelet kit which looks nifty! So now, no excuses, give this stuff a go! You'll have fun, I promise!