By Katherine Moriwaki

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Description: Learn how to embroider simple light up electronic circuits into garments in order to add a little bit of "sparkle" to your clothing. Using conductive thread, LED lights, and small batteries we'll cover how to stitch a soft circuit, creating simple, natural-looking, and attractive light up clothing.

The Scrapyard Challenge Workshops are intensive workshops where participants build simple electronic projects (both digital and analog inputs) out of found or discarded "junk" (old electronics, clothing, furniture, outdated computer equipment, appliances, turntables, monitors, gadgets, etc..). So far the workshops have been held 14 times in 6 countries with 3 different themes including the MIDI Scrapyard Challenge where participants build simple musical controllers from discarded objects and "junk", DIY Wearable Challenge where they create wearable tech projects from used clothing, and the DIY Urban Challenge where they work on public space interventions and other projects. The MIDI Scrapyard version includes a mini workshop where participants build simple drawing robots or "DrawBots" with small, inexpensive motors, batteries, and drawing markers that can also be connected to Serial or MIDI interface. No electronics skills or any experience with technology is necessary to participate in the workshops.

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