Example Projects
Workshops

Actuators
Circuits
Communication
Connections
Power
Sensors
Traces
Conductive Materials
Non-Conductive Materials
Tools
Techniques
Code
Sensors
  • Circular Knit Inflation Sensor
  • Circular Knit Stretch Sensors
  • Conductive Pompom
  • Constructed Stretch Sensors
  • Crochet Button
  • Crochet finger Sensor
  • crochet pressure sensor
  • Crochet Tilt Potentiometer
  • Crochet/Knit Pressure Sensors
  • Crochet/Knit Squeeze Sensors
  • Embroidered Potentiometers
  • Fabric Button
  • Fabric Potentiometer
  • Fabric Stretch Sensors
  • felted crochet pressure sensor
  • Felted Pompom Pressure Sensor
  • Finger Sensor
  • Knit Contact Switch
  • Knit Stroke Sensors
  • Knit Touchpad
  • Knit Accelerometer
  • Knit Stretch Sensors
  • Neoprene Bend Sensor
  • Neoprene Pressure Sensor
  • Neoprene Pressure Sensor Matrix
  • painted stretch sensor
  • Piezoresistive Fabric Touchpad
  • Pompom Tilt Sensor
  • Simple Fabric Pressure Sensors
  • Stickytape Sensors
  • Stroke Sensor
  • Tilt Sensor
  • Woven Pressure Sensor Matrix
  • Zipper Slider
  • Zipper Switch
  • About
  • Newsletter
  • Shopping Local

  • SEARCH
    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
    Sensors

    felted crochet pressure sensor

    Here, I have crochet conductive yarn with felting yarn and felted it afterwards. It works great as pressure sensor.

    Making


    Here is the crochet piece before felting. I mixed Schoeller Nm 10/3 conductive yarn with hippy rainbow color felting yarn.

    Now it is time to felt. Place the crochet piece on the bowl. Pour hot water, then cool it with cold water. Add soap and rub it really hard with your hand. Repeat these process until the piece starts to get hard and thick in your hand. (You will really feel it)

    It shrinks quite a bit after felting. In the picture on the left, bottom piece was same size as the top piece before felting. After felting, it definitely got smaller. If you are making a project that requires exact size, you should consider the shrinkage when you knit. The texture of the piece also changes a lot. It gets much thicker and firmer.

    1 Comment so far

    1. Jasper on November 22nd, 2011

      Maybe a video like that of the strings http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=2108 would be clearer.

      No worries, though, still very neat!

    Leave a comment