February 11-15 2019, taught by Paula Te and Hannah Perner-Wilson at the Copenhagen Institute for Interaction Design in Copenhagen, Denmark How might we imagine and build electronics differently, if instead of thinking about electronic functionality in terms of discrete components,...

CONNECTIONS & TRACES Batik Resist + Salt & Vinaigre Etching >> Plated & Soldered Connections >> https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=2999 Token & Pouch >> https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=7135 Pivoting 3-Way Connection >> https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=7435 Cardwoven Cable >> https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=6526 SENSORS Knit Accelerometer >> https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=3099 Button Button >> https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=2999...

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Lulu is a hardware solution that interfaces between an LED light source, an optic fiber strand or bundle, and sewable soft circuit connections. Lulu is providing a simple, reliable toolset for people who want to use side glow optical fibers...

January 2018, hosted jointly by Interface Cultures and Fashion and Technology departments at the Art University Linz, Austria * * * This workshop is only open to Art University Linz students. Students should only sign up for this course if...

A simple pressure sensor matrix made from two Kapton film sheets with 7×7 copper tape traces and a piece of velostat or Eeonyx piezoresistive material in between. Flickr set >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/albums/72157704662279354 MAKING OF: CIRCUIT & CODE: Teensy LC pinout: arduino...

A snap connection not only makes for a robust e-textile electrical connector, it also make for a great pivot point. When you have a single electrical connection to make the snap can double as both electrical connection and pivot point....

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Sick of LEDs shining directly in your eyes? We are too! This design has the LEDs mounted inside the curves of this serpentine strip so that the LED faces down towards the the fabric and what you see is the...

Nov 29,30,Dec 4,9,2018 10:00- 17:00 elab Weissensee Art Academy Berlin. Materials Highly conductive textile materials Copper Ripstop Fabric Shieldex Kassel Company: Statex Characteristics: Corrosion proof copper-silver plated polyamide ripstop fabric, < 0.03 Ohms/cm2 surface resistivity. Shieldex Technik-tex Company: Statex Characteristics:...

We very kindly received samples of this elastic conductive thread made with Statex conductive thread from Filix in France. We have not had time to use/test them for anything yet, but will post about it here as soon as we...

swing, sway, wave, trail, quiver, quake, judder, jiggle, jig, joggle, jog, jerk, waggle, wiggle, wriggle, wobble, shake, shiver, shudder, squirm, slant, lean, tip, slope, incline, dip, angle, twitch, totter, teeter, tremble, rock, roll, flutter, flap, vibrate, oscillate, convulse …work in...

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A metal clothing button and a button hole that works as state switch. When it is fastened, the connection is made, and if you open the button, the connection gets broken. *This sensor is inspired by the Swatch exchange sample...

See also Button Button >> http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=7328

Surely a button Is self-explanatory And yet causes stress (haiku from Kate Fletcher’s Craft of Use, p20) This post covers a few different ways you can construct your own electrical “pushbutton” or embed a ready-made mechanical pushbutton (also known as...

You can make your own mini-breadboards by cutting up a larger one. Flickr set >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/sets/72157672660416318 Peel back the stick and remove the metal from the rows you will cut: Cut: Replace the sticky: Five mini breadboard from one long...

August 20-25 2018, KOBA in Berlin, Germany SCHEDULE CONTENTS MEET THE MATERIALS materials overview material samples electricity introduced (ohm’s law) your friend, the multimeter TEXTILE SENSORS beaded tilt sensor fabric pushbutton fabric slider neoprene bend sensor knit tretch sensor crochet...

“arduino is an open source computer hardware and software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices and interactive objects that can sense and control objects in the physical and...

Textile Sensors One can make different types of sensors. Some sensors have two states, “on” or “off”, or another words, “contact” or “no contact” like on/off switches of a light. Other sensors have range of states, like a dimmer of...

August 6-11, 2018 at KOBA Explore the Material collect samples and make a page for your swatch book. Please check: How much resistance? What are the characteristics? (physical/ electrical) Does it change its conductivity? if so how, what is the...

Time: May 16,18 2018 10:00- 17:00 (15:00 on 16th) Time: May 30, June 1 2018 10:00- 17:00 Location: eLab, Weissensee Art Academy Berlin This workshop is only open to KHB students This is a series of 4 workshops to learn...

For the KOBA Prescilla commission we used this solution for making our own “Lulu” e-textile to LED to optic-fiber solution. Materials: WS2812B-MINI-3535-RGB-LED https://www.ebay.de/itm/WS2812B-MINI-3535-RGB-LED-mit-integriertem-WS2811-LED-Treiber-IC/173140850411?hash=item284fffb6eb:m:m4evCf5P4NKZRo7GbEJvUgA Brass tube https://www.modulor.de/en/round-tube-brass.html Protoboard strip board http://www.segor.de/#Q=710%252F5&M=1 Sideglow optic fiber https://www.leds-and-more.de/catalog/15mm-lwl-lichtwellenleiter-lichtleiter-seitlich-leuchtend-p-1937.html?osCsid=2me5dl4q5amcvgb6tnbqfd87i5

For the last 6 months KOBAKANT have been running KOBA, e-textile tailorshop in Berlin, Germany. During this time we’ve been refining our skills in some of the most basic techniques like making hard-soft connections and detachable parts. But we have...

A modular system for prototyping the exact placement of sensors, to be able to use/try/test them before finalizing where they go! Nadja Kutz has been developing all kinds of ideas for making herself datagloves (and senor-wear) to allow her to...