Making Textile Sensors from Scratch
January 27 2010, TEI, Cambridge, MA
15 participants, 6 hours
This workshop will explore the use of low-cost materials and tools to build textile-based interfaces. We will introduce a range methods for handcrafting textile sensors and circuitry.
Crochet finger Sensor
As it mentioned in CROCHET OR KNIT SIMPLE PRESSURE SENSOR post, the properties of the conductive yarn is sensitive to pressure or stretch. So, if you knit or crochet the conductive yarn to shape of finger, it can be a finger sensor like Sensitive Finger Tips project, but with crochet material instead of fabrics.
These example [...]
Neoprene LED Light Pouch
This soft LED light pouch is easy to make and runs with two AAA batteries. The design is super simple and fits really well with the lilypad components. Though you can also modify a regular LED and slide switch to be sewable by soldering little loops on the end of their leads. The light is [...]
Data Logging
Sparkfun has a nice little module for logging up to three channels of sensor data for up to three hours and then spitting it out on command.