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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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    Crochet Button

    By using conductive yarn as electrodes, you can create a simple button with crochet. The construction idea is very similar to fabric button.


    Crochet button with Schoeller Conductive Yarn: Nm 25/1 100% Inox @ Euros 145.00/kg (25,000 metres/kg). The resistance range 100-120 ohm, 30 ohm when stretched per 10 cm.

    The button has 1.6k ohm resistance when closed (pushed).

    Here are pictures of construction.
    The middle pink-white yarn is mixed with conductive yarn. Green and orange yarn are normal yarn. Orange yarn is connecting the 2 sides and closing the button.

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    1. [...] I’ve also been teaching myself to crochet and will be trying out more techniques soon. I made a crochet button using the example on How To Get What You Want. [...]

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