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    Content by Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson
    We support the Open Source Hardware movement. All our own designs published on this website are released under the Free Cultural Works definition
    The following institutions have funded our research and supported our work:

    Mika was a guest researcher at the Smart Textiles Design Lab, The Swedish School of Textiles

    Hannah is a former graduate student of the MIT Media Lab's High-Low Tech research group


    Hannah and Mika were both research fellows at the Distance Lab
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    stretchy cable

    Using stretch stitch on sewing machine, you can create stretchy fabric cable.
    The picture shows 9 line stretchy fabric cable, which resistance is 150 ohm/m.

    Base Fabric: Cotton jersey
    Top thread: normal thread
    Bottom thread: Lame Life Saver
    Stitch: stretchy, width 2.2, length 2.5

    * when sewing, the foot of the machine could not hold the fabric well. I used thin paper under the cotton jersey and sew it together to help the foot. If you do this method, you need to take off the paper from stitch afterwards, which is an extra work…



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