This interface was a build to teach the "Textiles and Electronics" workshop held at the In/Out Festival in New York at The Tank.
Materials are resistive thread (hand stitched) and bronze metallic wool that is needle felted to make isolated contacts along the linear resistance.
http://inoutfest.org/workshop/textiles-and-electronics
This interface was a build to teach the "Textiles and Electronics" workshop held at the In/Out Festival in New York at The Tank.
Materials are resistive thread (hand stitched) and bronze metallic wool that is needle felted to make isolated contacts along the linear resistance.
http://inoutfest.org/workshop/textiles-and-electronics
Performance of Utam Moses (choreographer) and Eric Lindsay's (composer) "The Space Between Us", for computationally enhanced dancers and MAX/MSP. The costumes are embedded with LilyPad Ardino technology; One of the dancers' (with the round skirt) costume combines LilyPad components and a XBee (wireless transmitter) together with pressure and flex sensors connected by conductive thread, which detects and transmits the movements of the dancer to the composer's laptop, which are then used to generate and control sound within a MAX/MSP environment.
Instead of a dancer's movements being a slave to the fixed constraints of a pre-composed piece of music, the wireless dance costume puts the power of live musical composition in the hands (body) of the dancer, who can explore and improvise new shapes and structures within an otherwise free musical environment.
"The Space Between Us" was premiered at the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre in Bloomington, IN in April 2010. The project is a team effort comprised…
An introduction to the field of eTextiles and soft-circuits for designers and makers. A Lecture by Meg Grant in Aalto University School of Art and Design, 3.5.2011.
This mitten lights up when its wearer shakes hands with someone. It has two exposed soft contacts around the thumb and across the palm which, when bridged by bare skin, turn on the LED embedded on the flower. The mitten itself was created by fashion designer Isabel Tomás, and we then sewed a simple touch switch circuit onto it using conductive fabric and thread.
Isabel and I designed this as a soft circuits exercise for some upcoming materials workshops. You can find all the instructions and images we prepared for this purpose @ openMaterials :: http://openmaterials.org/2010/03/03/making-a-glove-that-lights-up-with-a-hand-shake
A soft circuit interface designed for students to learn from using the LilyPad Arduino, 8 ohm piezo speaker, 2 soft momentary switches and a soft potentiometer. Programmed using the Tone() function and playing with the delay() function to achieve different tempos.
This was built for my 2 day workshop at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts "Soft Circuitry with LilyPad Arduino"
There is a second video where I record this same interface, the only difference is I use the LilyPad buzzer, the buzzer is softer but I thought it helpful to post both for comparison.
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