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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
    Workshops

    Handcrafting Textile Sensors in Vienna

    June 2 2011, 7pm, 3 hours, 15 participants, at Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory in Vienna/Austria

    If you have, PLEASE BRING: Knitting needles, crochet hook, multimeter, alligator clips, thread, yarn, fabric scraps and an Arduino board as well as your laptop with Arduino and Processing software installed.

    WHERE: Museumsquartier, Tagr TV / Transforming Freedom Space
    WHO: women and trans only
    REQUIREMENTS: no previous knowledge of textiles or electronics necessary!
    FEE: free
    REGISTER AT: mzbaltazarslaboratory@gmail.com

    This hands-on workshop introduces a range of low-cost materials and tools for building textile sensors. Participants will learn techniques for handcrafting textile sensors and circuitry that include sewing, knitting, crochet and embroidery. The goal of the workshop is to familiarize participants with available electronic textile materials and introduce them to a variety of sensor and circuitry construction techniques.
    Participants will also learn how to read the values of their sensors, using multimeters as well as Arduino and Processing.


    Introduction and presentation links

    >> Massage me
    >> Instructables
    >> KOBAKANT
    >> HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT
    >> High-Low Tech
    >> Kit-of-No-Parts
    >> Plusea

    Conductive materials

    >> Conductive thread
    >> Conductive fabric
    >> Velostat
    >> Neoprene
    >> Nm 10/3 conductive yarn

    Sensors covered in the workshop

    Conductive yarn sensors:
    >> Knit Stretch Sensor
    >> Crochet or Knit Pressure Sensor
    >> Crochet Tilt Potentiometer
    >> PomPom Pressure Sensor (felted)
    Velostat sensors:
    >> Neoprene Bend Sensor
    >> Neoprene Pressure Sensor
    >> Neoprene Pressure Sensor Matrix
    Digital sensors/switches:
    >> Stroke Sensor
    >> Tilt Sensor

    Participant Creations




    CODE

    >> Copy and paste Tom Igoe’s Arduino and Processing code that can read, send and graph multiple analog inputs
    >> Bellow is some basic Arduino code that will read analog input and print it to the serial port. Copy and paste the code into a blank Arduino sketch, then upload it to your Arduino board. If you run the serial monitor you should see the values (between 0-1023) appear in the window.

    // reads value of sensor attached between analog input zero (A0) and ground (-)
    // writes value out the serial port

    int value = 0;

    void setup() {
    pinMode(A0, INPUT);
    digitalWrite(A0, HIGH); //set internal pull-up resistor
    Serial.begin(9600);
    }

    void loop() {
    value = analogRead(A0);
    Serial.println(value);
    }


    Links

    >> Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory
    >> Workshop documentation of Flickr
    >> Arduino
    >> Processing
    >> Plug and Wear
    >> Less EMF

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    1. […] Workshop by Hannah Perner Wilson at Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory, photo by Hannah taken from kobakant […]

    2. Plusea on August 24th, 2011

      […] Textile Sensor Workshop at Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory in the Museums Quartier in Vienna, Austria […]

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