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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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    Fabric Ribbon Cable

    Dan Riley (www.scisci.org) made a beautiful Fabric Ribbon cable. 8 separate lines of conductive threads are woven into the fabric. The end of the cable is connected to normal 16 pin plug as normal ribbon cable. Since you can not place the conductive threads very close, only 8 of the pins are used on the plug. The is made by professional weaving machines, but perhaps it is also interesting to try this method with hand weaving.


    3 Comments so far

    1. Unibrow » Blog Archive » HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT on April 5th, 2010

      [...] Mika Satomi an esteemed lecturer held a workshop at THS in Smart Textiles. She discovered Dan’s wonderful electric ribbon and posted it on her very comprehensive website. Posted in arts and crafts [...]

    2. Jeannine on April 5th, 2010

      Bella Bella

    3. Literal ribbon cable made with conductive thread « The tech telecom and all on April 27th, 2010

      [...] Of course, you can just buy ribbon cables made from regular copper wire that have been woven together using thread, but where’s the fun in that? [via how to get what you want] [...]

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