Inspired by the Igne Oyasi Motor that I made during the 2014 E-Textile Summercamp and the 1-Bit Textile swatch that Irene Posch and Ebru Kurbak’s submitted to the 2015 E-Textile Swatch Exchange, this post documents the creation of a textile flip-dot fabric to be used as a display.

…WORK IN PROGRESS…

Materials and Tools

For a basic implementation of this technique you will need the following materials and tools:

Materials

– enameled copper wire (magnet wire) (or reuse wire from an old speaker or motor)
– neodymium magnet
– thread
– polymorph/shapelock/friendlyplastic
– nail varnish

Tools

– pencils for wrapping wire coil around
– kettle for boiling hot water
– pins and needles for making holes and sewing

Notes

– non-magnetic (non-ferrous) axis!
– relationship between coil’s electromagnetic field and permanent magnets magnetic field
– 3 states: north, south, null

Step-by-Step

Inspirations and References

Igne Oyasi Motor

Movement of fabric and coils (2014 E-Textile Summercamp) >> http://etextile-summercamp.org/2014/movement-
of-fabric-and-coils/
Igne Oyasi Motor >> http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=5277

Stitching Worlds

1-Bit Textile >> http://etextile-summercamp.org/swatch-exchange/1-bit-textile/
Towards Crafting a Computer: Crochet in Turkey >> http://www.stitchingworlds.net/experimentation/towards-crafting-a-computer-crochet-in-turkey/
Crafted Logic >> http://www.stitchingworlds.net/speculation/crafted-logic/

From Swatches to Pockets Workshop at ECAL

Workshop >> http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=5812
Copy of the 1-Bit Textile swatch:

Meg Grant’s Bead Motor

>> http://www.meggrant.com/movementstudies.php

textile movement study 3 from meg grant on Vimeo.

Pauline Van Dongen’s Flip Dot Dress

>> http://paulinevandongen.nl/projects/flip-dot-dress/
>> http://www.instructables.com/id/Flip-Dot-an-interactive-kinetic-wearable/

Flip Dot from Pauline van Dongen on Vimeo.