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 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...

A dataglove made from piezoresistive fabric with safetey pin connectors that can be pinned to different parts of the glove to capture stretch in different areas. Links: E-Textile Dataglove Overview: http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=6730 Dataglove Overview: http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=7114 Flickr set: https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/albums/72157679861886694/ Using the snap...

Inspired by this upcoming workshop during E-Textile Spring Break titled “Body to Body: RFID + PAN Workshop, where Ingo + Nicole will “…introduce a DIY implementation of these systems to pass data through bodies to other bodies”. To make the...

July 1-7th 2018 during DiNaCon in Koh Lon, Thailand During DiNaCon, Hannah and Mika will continue the ritual of “Human Nature” – a persistent conversation between what we perceive ourselves to be and where we feel we belong. Technology is...

This connector makes the connection between a piece of 1,5mm diameter sideglow fiber optic and an SMD Neopixel (controllable RGB LED). The four connections from the LED are broken out to rings on a tube which holds the LED on...

EMF (Electro Magnetic Field) is all around us, but we do not see or hear them. By amplifying it with EMF amplifier, you can listen to them. Many artists work with EMF amplifiers in their artistic expressions. One can also...

velostat is NOT a piezoresistive material!

In order to create our own version of a “Northbelt” built into the elastic of a jumpsuit waistband, we developed a technique for laying out the circuit’s traces along the length of the elastic, and then jumping inside to tight-fitting...

After tearing apart some classic and novel datagloves, I realized it would be so simple to layout and produce a version of these multiple flex sensor rigs using a vinylcutter, some Kapton film and tape, copper tape sheets and velostat....

When making eTextile circuit, the solder joint between hard component and conductive textile material tend to break as it get the most strain from flexing. To avoid this, the whole circuit can be placed on a fabric button so that...

How much do we actually know about the conductive fibers, fabrics and threads that we use? There are videos, guides and tutorials that explain what different materials are available and how to use them for e-textile circuits and sensors (see...

Based on the idea of this Common GND breadboard (electronic components) to snap (textile) connector, I wanted to think-through the work-flow of using such a breakout board that would allow me to prototype both circuit and wearable, with iterations and...

Analyzing what it means to make a “soft circuit”, which today still means combining a mix of soft and hard components. Arrangements: Distributed – Clustered – Consolidated Connections: Permanent – Detachable An attempt at creating an overview of techniques:

As part of thinking about robustness and durability in our e-textile tailor shop, I’m revisiting some of the ways we’ve been making permanent and detachable connections between hard and soft components of e-textile circuits. Permanent Solder wick loops on protoboard:...

A collection of different ways to store coin-cell batteries (CR2032). One picture per method, with links to further documentation where available. Instructable >> https://www.instructables.com/id/12-Ways-to-Store-Your-Coin-cells/ Lasercut Stretchy Battery Pocket >> http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=4432 Clothspin Battery Holder >> http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=5222 Conductive Fabric With Magnet >>...

New manufacturers and distributors are always popping up and disappearing again. In this post we try to list some of our most used e-textile materials and where we purchase. Since we are based in Berlin/Germany we try to order as...

E-Textiles + Jugend Hackt = interactive alpaca t-shirt. Take some thin paper and trace your alpaca face. You can cut out the outline of your alpaca face with scissors. Use a cutter knife to cut out the inner pieces. Do...

Stereo audio jack socket: USB power:

“ohne mich” (engl. “without me”) Interactive Fiber-Optic Poetry in Motion For the opening collection of our KOBA Maßschneiderei – an E-Textile Tailor Shop we are opening in Berlin very soon – we are prototyping the items in this collection. One...

Using beads to insulate multiple conductive threads next to one another coming from an e-textile circuit, ending in male header pins.

Sewing Karl-Grimm copper conductive thread as bottom bobbin thread in sewing machine and soldering cut up pieces from a Neopixel strip to these lines to have custom placement and spacing. Flickr set >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/albums/72157666245049449

14-17th November 2017 hosted jointly by Interface Cultures and Fashion and Technology departments at the Art University Linz, Austria * * * This workshop is only open to university students * * * Alternative Titles: What can technology do for...

October 2018 at ČIPke in Ljubljana, Slovenia Super rough draft of workshop description. Could change completely. Imagine a tailor shop for wearable technology opens up down your street? Are you curious? Will you enter? Will you dream about what you...