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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:

    From 2013-2015 Mika is 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
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    Handcrafting Textile Sensors from Scratch

    14 December 2009, AIA, Lisbon, Portugal
    15 participants, 6 hours

    Constructing textile sensors and circuitry from available and affordable materials and tools. Implementing these in interaction scenarios to explore the qualities of textiles in human-computer interaction.

    Participants will be introduced to a range of conductive fabrics, threads, yarns and other soft and squishy materials with interesting electrical properties. These materials, which have been sourced and selected because of their availability and price, will be used in series of handcraft techniques that include sewing, knitting and crochet. These techniques require very basic tools such as sewing and knitting needles, crochet hooks, scissors and irons.

    >> Download the workshop presentation as PDF (10MB)

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    1. L. on February 28th, 2010

      The Pdf did not download because it has an error. Can this be corrected so I can download the workshop presentation for handcrafting textile sensors from scratch?

    2. admin on February 28th, 2010

      the download works for me so i don’t know what the issue is. if you email us i can then send you the pdf via email.

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