Smart Clothing Without Coding — Fashion Tech Maker Kits

At the Fashion Tech Berlin exhibition,360Fashion Network displayed clothing and accessories made with 360Fash Tech Kits. Among the many items displayed, the “Robotic Dress Kit” stood out as a fashion maker kit for fashion designers to create their own intelligent clothing without the need to code or solder along with the “Motion Kit” enabling motion to trigger lighting.

A ball gown created by Michal Starost using the “Robotic vintage prom dresses uk Kit” raised it’s skirt and danced in a pattern with the press of a button. The Motion Dress created by RFACTORYusing the 360Fash Tech “Motion Kit”, lights up when the wearer makes a large movements such as walking, but does not flash on when standing in front of someone. The dress made lightning bolt patterns down an organza gown using soft fabric LED Ribbons included in the kit.

360Fash Tech Kits are a series of maker kits for fashion designers, with eleven different technologies to try such as the Motion Kit, Robotic Dress Kit, LED Bag Kit, Solar Power Bag Kit, Gesture Kit; each with a variety of sensors and components suitable specifically for fashion clothing and accessories that snap together. The kits are using Intel Edison and Intel Curie boards along with having IBM Bluemix cloud service integrated with Twitter Sentiment, IBM Watson, and weather api’s for fashion designers to use.

“Working with 360Fash Tech Kits was quite easy, enabling us to bring a future glimpse at what shape, movement, and robotics can contribute to the change of a silhouette.” Says Michal Starost.

“Integrating motion lighting into our vintage formal dresses gave us new possibilities to service our clients, with a new experience and fun. Fashion tech is the future and the 360Fash Tech Kit makes is possible for us to experiment.” — CEO RFactory, Ocean.

“We want to make it easy for fashion designers to concentrate on what they are good at: integration and design. Our kits make it easy for them to take their first steps into wearable technology and smart clothing product creation.” Says Anina Net, CEO of 360Fashion Network.