For midterm I sewed 8 LEDs to represent the 8 cardinal points in a compass to a glove with a switch on the palm. Eventually this will connect to an app, to tell you which way you should walk.

What you need:

8 surface mount LEDs
16 crimp beads
Tweezers
A small piece of tape
Soldering iron and solder
A glove
Conductive thread
Regular thread
Conductive foam or velostat
A small piece of fabric
3v battery

Assemble the lights
Solder 2 crimp beads onto the surface-mount LEDs, one for the positive end, one on the negative. This is will give you ‘legs’ which you can then thread through. The tweezers are really handy here as these parts are really small. Use a piece of tape to keep things in place; and your sanity.

Make the switch/pressure sensor
1. Use conductive thread to stitch a pattern on each of the fabric pieces. They should be small enough to fit in the palm of the glove.

2. Place the conductive foam in between the pieces of fabric and sow the sides together.

Sewing the Circuit

Draw your circuit on the glove. Make sure you’re wearing the glove so the placement is correct.
Sew the ground of the LEDs together
Connect ground to the switch

Battery holder
Create a battery holder on using regular fabric with conductive thread on each side. connect ground to the ground of the circuit.