This semester, we are sitting in a strange bubble at home. No casual coffee with your friend between the lectures, no physical exchange of cool weaving trick to speed up your assignment, no hugging, no kissing... Instead of crying over...

! wearing NOT touching ! The sensors in our textile sensors category are often not designed to be worn on the body. This post shows 6 textile sensors that can easily be made to be worn on the body. The...

This example project brings together the making of pressure sensor insoles (https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=8305), the use of an ESP32 wireless arduino board, the MQTT protocol and Shiftr.io broker (https://shiftr.io) to draw lines of text in Processing (and hopefully in future p5.js!). STEP1:...

This workshop is a part of a course at the Art Academy Weissensee Berlin. May7 – July 9 2020 The course took place as weekly online course. The hand book PDF is here >> Meet the Material (May 14) Building...

Rather simple way of making insoles with 3 pressure sensors located at different pressure points of the foot on the ground. The entire circuitry is sewn with conductive thread on sewing machine. The piezoresistive (pressure sensing) material is taped in...

How many times I’ve made various little vibration-motor break-out modules like these so that they can be snapped into wearable projects….. Using either Sugru silicon or Shapelock/polymorph/friendly plastic/thermoplast…… or casting resin ontop. DIY Datagloves >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/albums/72157632680779240/page2/ Datagloves project >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/albums/72157627812000790...

with NO SCREENS? 5. – 7.05. & 12. – 14.05. 11:00 – 13:00 & 14:00 – 16:00. We will use SENSORS to capture and translate our physical bodily interactions with the world into electronic signals. Use arduino to translate these...

Come study eTextiles in the context of play, theater, participatory performance, storytelling and material puppetry in Berlin! In march 2020 Hannah started a new job, and is now professor in the masters program Spiel&&Objekt (Play&&Object), situated in the contemporary puppetry...

A worksheet for taking note of: The electrical resistance range of an analog sensor (Ohm). Picking a mean resistance in that range. Using a resistor of that resistance to build a Voltage Divider that will translate resistance into voltage. Taking...

Made for Boris’s Trombone Breathing Vest: >> https://www.kobakant.at/KOBA/trombone-breathing/ >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/41226413250

FYI: Open call for KYOTO Design Lab Textiles Summer School 2020 is out. The deadline is on the May 7th. https://www.d-lab.kit.ac.jp/events/2020/tss-2020/ It is the midst of crazy situation, and it maybe hard to think of the summer now… But if...

the_boardgame This workshop-as-boardgame was developed during corona times as a means of teaching remotely with as little screen-time as possible. #noscreens MaterialAdventures >> https://www.plusea.at/?p=6605

This workshop is only open to students of the Spiel&&Objekt master program at the Ernst Busch Hochschule in Berlin. MiniWorkshop: Making and Moving Dioramas 2 Tage: 15+16 April 2020, 11-16:00 Raum: VORNE From the project proposal We Have You Surrounded...

This workshop is part of a course at the Ernst Busch Hochschule in Berlin. It is only open to students in the departments of Contemporary Puppetry and Spiel&&Objekt. Gestaltungsprojekt Puppe (Teil 1): Tasten und Töne aus dem Wald 5 Tage:...

A potentiometer, a potential devider, with the resistive track as the big donut and the conductive wiper as the small donut.

USB plugs are surprisingly easy to make yourself. You might have already seen some versions made directly on a PCB – either milled or etched (or scraped by hand) from copper laminated FSR board. But you can also sew a...

Flipdots, flap, jumps, speakers, motor, fur… FLIP-DOTS Flip-Dot Swatch Example >> https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=5915 Fabric Flipdot with H-Bridge >> Fabric Flipdot with H-Bridge Flip-Dot Fabric (work in progress) >> https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=5878 FLAPS Flapping Wing Swatch Example >> https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=5900 Flapping Wings >> http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=8058 JUMPS...

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Multiple of these: Flapping Wing Swatch Example >> https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=5900

Super simple with single transistor flips one direction only: With h-bridge circuit build on breadbaord (2 NPN transistors, 2 PHP transistors): MAKING-OF

January 2020, 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...

18 Nov – 6 Dez 2019 Spiel & Objekt Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch Photos >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/albums/72157712439878226

Photos >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/albums/72157712300020868

As makers, we spend much of our time with the materials of our practice. We get to know them, and they shape not only the things we are able to make, but also what we are able to imagine. Working...