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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.

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);
}

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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

We support the Open Source Hardware movement. All our own designs published on this website are released under the Free Cultural Works definition

Handcrafting Textile Sensors in Vienna

Introduction and presentation links

Conductive materials

Sensors covered in the workshop

Participant Creations

CODE

Links

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