The Story Behind FLEXIDOTS:

FLEXIDOTS is developed by Hong Hua. It is also his thesis project for his master degree at Design & Technology, Parsons School of Design, the New School. This project was supervised by Nancy Valladares, Dan Taeyoung, and Barbara Morris, and a special thanks to our colleagues and friends from the DT community for their support!

The initial motivation for this project was to change the methodology for prototyping wearable physical computing. Existing wearable solutions are often associated with electronic textile, such as Flora by Adafruit or Lilypad by Sparkfun. These ecosystems, which require conducting threads to knit the circuits, do not meet the needs of rapid prototyping and increase learning costs. Inspired by littleBits, FLEXIDOTS has modular system and adaptive wearable attachments, which is intended to address the challenge of making ergonomic, simplistic, and durable wearable electronics.

FLEXIDOTS is an open-source project. This project also builds on many other open source projects, including hardware: Arduino, micro:bit, Seeed Studio Grove, software: p5.js, Scratch. We welcome everyone to download, make use of, modify and share under open source MIT license.