Creation of brooches with the design of the mascot of the OSHWDem (the octopus OSHWi), made with felt, LEDs and conductive thread, during the OSHWDem of 2019.

The idea is to show an introduction to e-textiles and soft circuit basic notions for anyone with many or few notions of electronics.

We will provide a kit of materials with everything necessary for its preparation, and the BricoLabs volunteers will help to make them, so that all the participants can carry them made.

By the way, we will help the dissemination of the image of the OSHWDem to the public and the promotion of open technologies among the population.

• White felt eyes piece.
• Blue felt body piece.
• Black felt pupil piece.
• Battery felt bag.
• Safety pin with holes.
• Conductive thread.
• LEDs.
• Snap fasteners.
• Button battery (CR2032 3V).
• Kit bag.
• Instructions.

• Scissors.
• Big eye needles.
• Thimbles.
• Threader.
• Open seams.
• Round nose pliers.
• Extra LEDs.
• Conductive thread (bobbin).
• Normal blue thread.
• Pins and pincushions.

Assembly of the pieces.

Sewn of the safety pin.

Sewn of the electrical circuit.

Insert the cell battery.

You can see the full instructions here (spanish by now): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GCWRxfRG0pNFzJ67yNSEldkmafNem9-4/view?usp=sharing

• Cut the conductive thread into small pieces, because in longer ones it becomes more entangled, among other problems (entanglements, thread twist is undone, etc …) and in addition, I remember the teachings of my mother: “Long thread, small seamstress ”.
• Use thimble: “Seamstress without thimble, sew little and sew badly”. Thank you for keeping my fingertips safe, mom!
• Needle with large eye (because the thread is thicker than those of sewing fabrics), but not too much, because it does not enter through the holes of the snap fasteners.
• And needle with a fine point (because those with a round tip, as they are usually those with a large eye, do not puncture well in the tissue and make stitches difficult).
• In thick fabrics such as felt, so that the stitch is not visible on the right side of the work, it is best to sew upside down and puncture only up to half of the fabric, so it is a cleaner job on the right side.

• Conchi Fernández, coordinator. https://twitter.com/cfdezmunin
• Daniel.
• Raquel. https://twitter.com/droid_project
• Loli Blanco. https://twitter.com/LoliBlancoC
• Xosé Pérez. https://twitter.com/XosePerezK
• Maite.
• Rosa. https://twitter.com/Rosa25575879
• Jordi. https://twitter.com/Jordi_R_C
• LolyP. https://twitter.com/lolyp
• With a special thanks to Xoan Sampaíño for his solutions: https://twitter.com/xoan
• And another thanks to all the makers and all the other people who came to sew an OshwiPin with us at OSHWDem 2019 (https://oshwdem.org/makers-2019/). Love you all!

Best regards.