Open Softwear is a book about fashion and technology. More precisely it is a book about Arduino boards, conductive fabric, resistive thread, soft buttons, LEDs, and some other things. Authors T. Olsson, D. Gaetano, J. Odhner, and S. Wiklund started researching five years ago thanks to the support of K3,  School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden. The ideas of the book has been tested in the Malmö University's several different courses to proof the concept.

This is very new 2nd edition, printed 2011. The book is an illustrated guide of how to enter to the field of physical computing from the perspective of the e-textiles and wearable electronics. It includes plenty of useful and practical tips for sewing e-textiles, wearable electornics.

The book starts with the basics of electricity, hardware and Arduino in chapter one before jumping into practical examples and projects and ends with an informative guide to coding for the Arduino. It is packed with practical and commonly e-textile type examples from touch sensitive embroidery to soft synthesizers.