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    Content by Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson
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    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
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    Sensors

    Embroidered Potentiometers

    also see: crochet tilt potentiometer, fabric potentiometer, time sensing bracelet,

    Made using the zig-zag stitch on the sewing machine to sew/embroider a conductive and a resistive trace side by side. Then any conductive object can be used to bridge the contact between the traces and measure the position/distance from measuring point through the change in resistance.
    In the example video bellow a metal tea-spoon is used as a “conductive wiper finger”.

    Syuzi Pakhchyan describes this method in her book Fashioning Technology, by example of a linear slider potentiometer using a magnet to keep the conductive wiper finger in place.




    Video

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    1. DIY – stylish eTextile embroidery - Mika Satomi, Hannah Perner-Wilson, eTextile, Perner-Wilson - talk2myShirt on April 5th, 2010

      […] love the recently posted embroidered potentiometers as they show nicely how to integrate technical parts such as conductive lines which can either be […]

    2. Conductive Thread « NerdSonic on April 20th, 2010

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    3. Embroidered potentiometers « The tech telecom and all on May 1st, 2010

      […] spotted these really cool potentiometers embroidered in conductive thread about a week ago. The device consists of a conductive and a resistive trace stitched into the […]

    4. Embroidered potentiometers | Electronic-Geek.com on July 30th, 2010

      […] spotted these really cool potentiometers embroidered in conductive thread about a week ago. The device consists of a conductive and a resistive trace stitched into the […]

    5. Plusea on September 3rd, 2012

      […] Embroidered Pot blog post >> Instructable (coming soon….) >> Flickr photo set >> Download Instruction […]

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