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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
    Workshops

    Solar T-shirt Workshop

    Location: Kunstraum Walcheturm
    Kanonengasse 20 – 8004 Zürich
    Date: Nov 20 (Saturday) 10.00 – 17.00

    Location: [plug.in]
    St. Alban-Rheinweg 64 – 4052 Basel
    Date: Nov 21 (Sunday) 10.00 – 17.00

    This workshop is organized by digital brainstorming (www.digitalbrainstorming.ch). The workshop lasts one day (10-17h) to create your own Solar T-Shirt.

    We had 12 participants in Zurich, and 11 in Basel.
    Here are some of the nice and creative solar T-shirt outcome from the workshop.

    more pictures from Zurich

    more pictures from Basel

    Pictures from Caroline >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/38748996@N00/

    Solar Tshirt link:
    Example poject Solar T-shirt with step by step instruction

    Download links:
    solar_Tshirt_schematic.pdf
    checklist.pdf
    Layout example

    Materials used in the workshop:
    conductive fabric:
    >>MedTex130

    conductive thread:
    >>117/17 2ply (thin one)
    >>234/34 4ply (thick one)

    There are also European distributers of these materials. For detail, see Conductive Fabric and thread posts.

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    1. KOBAKANT on September 14th, 2010

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