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    Content by Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson
    E-Textile Tailor Shop by KOBAKANT
    The following institutions have funded our research and supported our work:

    Since 2020, Hannah is guest professor of the Spiel&&Objekt Master's program at the University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch in Berlin

    From 2013-2015 Mika was a guest professor at the eLab at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee

    From July - December 2013 Hannah was a researcher at the UdK's Design Research Lab

    From 2010-2012 Mika was a guest researcher in the Smart Textiles Design Lab at The Swedish School of Textiles

    From 2009 - 2011 Hannah was a graduate student in the MIT Media Lab's High-Low Tech research group led by Leah Buechley


    In 2009 Hannah and Mika were both research fellows at the Distance Lab


    Between 2003 - 2009 Hannah and Mika were both students at Interface Cultures
    We support the Open Source Hardware movement. All our own designs published on this website are released under the Free Cultural Works definition

    FUSIBLE INTERFACING


    How to use fusible interfacing (an iron-on fabric heat glue)

    Snap Press Options


    Snap fasteners (also called “poppers” in British English) consist of 4 parts (LA,B,CW,LA) and these can be cripted together in pairs to make up one female and one male snap. SNAP FLY-PRESS MACHINE We got our machine from: Durable Fasteners Ltd 430 Kingsland Road London E8 4AA UK Tel +44 (0)20 7254 6713 www.durablefasteners.co.uk costs: […]

    MINI CLIP CLAMPS


    Clip clamps

    SNIPS


    Snippers

    Hot Air Gun


    Hot air pistol for shrinking shrink tube

    DressCode Vest


    Example of the DressCode circuit embedded in a fancy vest.

    DressCode Necklace


    A gift for a friend from KOBAKANT. Made using the DressCode circuit.

    DressCode Dress Shirt


    DressCode is a sound reactive circuit based on PIC, developed by Seb Madgwick, Vincent Akkermans, Sophie McDonald and KOBAKANT. It has 3 output pins that gets activated as the environmental sound changes. It has auto gain feature so it adjust to the general sound amount of the environment. (for example, if you go to a […]

    ATTINY POV


    Inspired by this Instructable (http://www.instructables.com/id/LilyPad-Wrist-Band-POV/), I have tried to make a POV (Persistence Of Vision) with ATTINY, so it can be cheap and tiny. Materials used: – 8 SMD LED – ATTINY45 – 8 pin socket (not necessary) – KarlGrimm conductive thread – Lipo battery My idea is to use ATTINY45 (or 85) instead of […]

    Flex PCB and Solder Mask Supplies


    Solder masks are layers of mataerial applied to circuitboards before soldering. The protect the conductive traces against oxidization and shorting out, but also help control the flow of solder when soldering the parts to the board. Solder masks are commonly silk-screened on to the etched circuit as a thin layer of coloured epoxy. Solder masks […]

    Laser- and Vinylcut Solder Masks


    Make your own solder mask! Links: Fusible interfacing >> http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=1611 Solder mask supplies >> Vinycut fabric circuits >> http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=1132

    Embroidered LilyBLE Module


    The LilyBLE was designed by Katharina Bredies as combines the a sewable Arduino platform for programming microcontrollers with the new Bluetooth standard 4.0 Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). In addition to the LilyBLE module there is also a visual programming environment for the iPad that allows you to connect various sensors and actuators to the i/o […]