While the LilyPad Design Kit is a great introduction to circuits and working with LilyPad e-textiles, the projects could be a bit more practical or useful. It's always fun to make something you'll be able to use later (a light up pin? an embroidery? a t-shirt design?) rather than just laying it all out in felt for no reason other than to learn. The instructions are simple and clear. You just have to get creative with how you implement the exercises if you want your end product to be useful.

I love how easy this technology can be for an experienced seamstress and engineer! The design kit and the online picture experiments were very user-friendly. If you are very inexperienced in either sewing or circuits, than it is definitely a good level of kit for you. I also like that if you want to teach basic circuits, all you would have to do is remove the thread when finished, no de-soldering or rounding up breadboards and jumper wires. I noticed that the sewing gets the students to slowdown and check their work before blowing out the circuits by quick power ups since they "worked so hard" to make the circuits. The downside to the kit is that it is too easy. I would like to see the kit come with an LilyTiny reprogramming experiment, including the ic test clip cable, jumpers and the tiny avr programmer. Or better yet, include the LilyPad Arduino USB in a more advanced kit. Regardless, this kit got me and my bio-engineering students interested in many different wearable sensor applications!

This kit is a big help to me as I am np making several projects to display in my classroom.

The set was a head-scratcher for me at first, as it did not actually come with a LilyPad Arduino. Eventually I learned to appreciate all of the components provided, and I use them in many of my wearable and non-wearable projects. I now realize the LilyTiny is really a very handy small, programmable Arduino that can do most of my projects. Did have to later purchase the LilyTiny programming tools.

I have purchased this kit in preparation for a workshop on Etextiles. Having worked with SparkFun, shoutout to Brian, at the recent Microcontrollers for Educators programme I am fired up and ready to deploy this kit.

I already sew and have basic knowledge of circuitry, I had been intending to combine the two forever, but couldn't quite get organized enough to source components and sit down and teach myself. I was very pleased with the intro kit & online instructions.

My wife is enjoying the kit. Has everything you need and the instructions are very thorough.