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...

This is a 4 days workshop at the Weissensee Art Academy Berlin as a part of the Textile and Surface design course. The workshop will take place from December 9th to 13th. In this workshop, we will look into using...

18 Nov – 6 Dez 2019 Spiel & Objekt Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch CODE EXAMPLES arduino Single Analog Sensor Value Examples: Communication –> Graph This example contains the code you need to read an analog sensor value and send...

This is NOT a stretch sensor, but rather the opposite, a way of making a stretchy connection/lead/trace. A tube knit from conductive thread with round elastic inserted. Before finishing the ends, the knit tube is stretched to it’s max and...

When using microcontroller for embroidery circuit projects, sometimes you do not want to directly solder them on the embroidery as you need to take it out to change the program on it. For this, sockets are convenient, but it is...

(German version bellow) Stories from an e-textile tailor Make your tech and wear it too! In this talk I’d like to give an introduction to the materials, tools, skills and energies involved in making electronic textiles and tailoring wearable technology,...

In this post I want to try and explain how a pressure matrix built from conductive rows and columns with a piezoresistive material (Eeonyx, Velostat) in between works, how to wire it up to an Arduino and write the Arduino...

11 December 2019, 15-18:00 at TH Nürnberg, Germany A hands-on exercise in re-imagining techniques for making electronics that are integrated in different kinds of material and craft processes. Links: >> A Kit-of-No-Parts at Weissensee (2014)

An attempt to combine three iconic illustrations of ohm’s law into one: annotated in german (english coming soon): ORIGINALS: the best: forrest m. mims Getting Started in Electronics >> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5jcnBPSPWQyaTU1OW5NbVJQNW8/edit the water analogy:

Copper of thread, pigment of change….. >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/albums/72157711127804177

All from one circle…. >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/albums/72157711023680842

A simple LED circuits with an interrupted connection that can be worn as a bracelet. >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/albums/72157711023687402 >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/albums/72157711023695062

A collection of simple circuits (power, actuator) that are missing a part of their connection. Intended for visualizing the effects that variable resistive sensors have on the amount of voltage that reaches the actuator. LED RGB LED Buzzer with built-in...

Three techniques for mounting LEDS on top of buttons. 1 sew buttons with a solderable conductive thread and solder LEDs afterwards to the thread. 2 prepare button with copper tape and solder LED first and then sew to make contact...

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October 2019 – January 2020, a course in the department of Gestaltung: Technik-Textil at the Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria This course is only open to students of Gestaltung: Technik-Textil. This course pursues an exploratory approach to introducing electronic textiles (E-Textiles) as...