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    Content by Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson
    E-Textile Tailor Shop by KOBAKANT
    The following institutions have funded our research and supported our work:

    Since 2020, Hannah is guest professor of the Spiel&&Objekt Master's program at the University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch in Berlin

    From 2013-2015 Mika was a guest professor at the eLab at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee

    From July - December 2013 Hannah was a researcher at the UdK's Design Research Lab

    From 2010-2012 Mika was a guest researcher in the Smart Textiles Design Lab at The Swedish School of Textiles

    From 2009 - 2011 Hannah was a graduate student in the MIT Media Lab's High-Low Tech research group led by Leah Buechley


    In 2009 Hannah and Mika were both research fellows at the Distance Lab


    Between 2003 - 2009 Hannah and Mika were both students at Interface Cultures
    We support the Open Source Hardware movement. All our own designs published on this website are released under the Free Cultural Works definition
    Conductive Materials

    Cheap Electronic Toys

    The circuits found inside cheap electronic toys, especially sound toys, can become very useful when you want small circuits. You can not customize them as much as planning and programming your own, but these come cheap, quick and easy to cut down to a bare minimum and embed in a garment.

    Example projects that use cheap electronic sound toy circuits are:
    >> Wearable Sound Experiment
    >> Wearable Toy Piano
    >> Piano T-Shirt

    Sound Recording & Playback Modules

    Radioshack 9V Recording module (USA)

    >> http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102855

    Conrad (DE)

    10 seconds
    >> http://www.conrad.de/ce/de/product/191184/Grusskarten-Tonaufzeichnungsmodul-10-s-Baustein-45-VDC-Aufnahmezeit-10-s

    Alibaba (China)

    >> http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/voice-recording-module.html

    ISD1820

    >> http://www.elecfreaks.com/2215.html
    10 seconds (no speaker), Deal Extreme (China) >> http://dx.com/p/isd1820-voice-recording-playback-recorder-module-board-167092
    10 seconds (no speaker), via Ebay (China) >> http://www.ebay.de/itm/3-5V-ISD1820-Module-Voice-Recording-Playback-Mic-Sound-Audio-For-Arduino-UNO-PI-/390620630966?pt=Wissenschaftliche_Ger%C3%A4te&hash=item5af2cdcfb6

    Amazon DE

    >> http://www.amazon.de/Aufnahme-Abspiel-Modul-f%C3%BCr-Gru%C3%9Fkarten-Sekunden/dp/B008BHDS1M/ref=pd_bxgy_ce_img_z
    >> http://www.amazon.de/Your-Design-Gru%C3%9F-Modul-Geschenkp%C3%A4ckchen-Aufnahme/dp/B0068GXHJ6/ref=pd_bxgy_ce_img_y
    >> http://www.amazon.de/Your-Design-Aufnahme–Abspiel-Modul-Gru%C3%9Fkarten/dp/B004S9IQ5U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374764661&sr=8-1&keywords=ton+gru%C3%9Fkarte

    From local toy store

    Toy Pianos

    Schylling

    Used in Piano T-Shirt Workshop.
    >> http://www.schylling.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SD&Product_Code=MEP&Category_Code=S-MUSIC

    From local 99c store

    Other sound making toys

    Noise Maker from local 99c store



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