Touch Sensitive Clothing
Self heating touchscreen-friendly gloves and a hat that vibrates when someone is coming up behind you
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17
Jun
2009
Mediamatic Bank, Vijzelstraat 68, 1017 HL, AmsterdamBy
Click here for a full report of the Electro Clothing workshops.
In a series of workshops Mediamatic explored electro-clothing. Clothing that lights up in the dark, clothing that sings when it is touched and clothing that moves when it is cold. Participants brought their own garment to technify.
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At the Touch Sensitive Clothing Workshop at Mediamatic.
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Showing off a touch sensitive t-shirt. -
At the Touch Sensitive Clothing Workshop at Mediamatic.
with:
NadyaTrainer
Nadya Peek is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge. There she explores body extensions and identity through hardware, as well as low-power low-cost mobile technology.
Touching
What can we do when someone touches us or we touch them? And also, how do we use touchscreen mobile phones with gloves in the winter?
In the touch workshop we explored capacitive sensing, vibration motors, heating elements and IR distance sensing.
Participants brought a garment of their own choice (dress, coat, pants, underwear etc). In the electronics kit included in the price of the workshop were the sensors, the actuators, a preprogrammed AVR chip to control the input and the output and laser-cut conductive fabric traces you could iron on to any clothing you care to bring. To make better connections you could also sew with conductive thread and add metallic snaps and buttons. By the end of the workshop everyone had constructed their own electro-clothing.
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Working together on wearables. -
At the Touch Sensitive Clothing Workshop at Mediamatic.
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At the Touch Sensitive Clothing Workshop at Mediamatic.
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Making touch sensitive outfits. -
At the Touch Sensitive Clothing Workshop at Mediamatic.
Comments (4)
Stella
simona
ideacritik
Jelte
Hermen
Mannie
hanne
Sandra
Désirée
Marloeke
Titus
Willem
Anouk
Arjan
Tanja
Joris
Paul
Eric
reservist
reservation
Can I be put on the reserve list as well?
the electronics kit
hello, as I won't be able to attend this workshop, would be great if I could get/buy one of the electronics kits for this workshop -- to experiment with it on my own time.
if possible, reserve one kit for me -- with the coordinator, Ms. Deborah Meibergen, or I could get it from you after one of the RFID sessions.
thx in advance,
sm
electronics kit
hi i'd love to get a kit as well. Is it possible?
bw, Gisela