FLORA, Adafruit's new wearable electronics development platform

Our friends at Adafruit Industries just announced FLORA, a new wearable electronics development platform.

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For the last few years Ladyada has been thinking about everything she wanted in a wearable electronics platform for Adafruit’s community of makers, hackers, crafters, artists, designers and engineers. After months of planning, designing and working with partners around the world for the best materials and accessories, we can share what we’re up to. The hardware is now in the hands of our staff and testers!

Announcing the FLORA, Adafruit’s wearable electronics platform and accessories

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Antinous / Moderator

Obligatory Logan joke.
sugarsails

How does it compare to the existing Lilypad?

http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/LilyPad/
- rev
  
  You could read the linked post which would answer your question. http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/01/20/announcing-the-flora-adafruits-wearable-electronics-platform-and-accessories/
  
  The big issues from my perspective would be size, built-in USB, and HID support. There are other differences.
mistaj

Obligatory Tony Stark joke.
http://echofox3.blogspot.com efergus3

Hmmmmmm. I’ve doing this sort of thing for years since I accidently super-glued my netbook to my chest. Yeah, embarrassing but with the bike mirror attached (to see the screen), handy.