2010 SCHEDULE

Wednesday February 3: Course Introduction

materials: conductive fabrics, conductive threads and yarns
techniques: hand sewing, switch design
assignment: registration survey


Friday February 5: Conductive Textiles

materials: conductive fabrics, conductive threads and yarns, LEDs
techniques: simple circuit design
assignment: soft circuit


Wednesday February 10: Textile Sensors

materials: resistive yarns, piezo resistive (pressure sensitive) materials
techniques: sensor design


Friday February 12: NO CLASS

Wednesday February 17: Fabric PCBs Part 1

assignment due: soft circuit
materials: conductive fabrics, fabric adhesives
techniques: soldering, circuit design
assignment: "hello world" fabric PCB part 1


Friday February 19: Guest Lecture, Marcelo Coelho, MIT Media Lab

Wednesday February 24: Fabric PCBs Part 2

assignment due: "hello world" fabric PCB part 1
materials: microcontrollers
techniques: laser cutting, microcontroller programming
machines: laser cutter
assignment: "hello world" fabric PCB


Friday February 26: Guest Lecture, Yoel Fink, Materials Engineering, MIT
CLASS WILL MEET IN THE MATERIALS ENGINEERING BUILDING, 13-5013

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Wednesday March 3: Fibers and Yarns

assignment due: "hello world" fabric PCB
materials: fibers and yarns
techniques: spinning, metal wrapping, wire extrusion, etc.
fiber & yarn terminology, measurement units and methods
assignment: yarn


Friday March 5: Guest Lecture, Greg Rutledge, Chemical Engineering, MIT

Monday March 8, 3-5pm: Spinning Workshop

Wednesday March 10: Nonwovens

assignment due: yarn
materials: fibers (including natural, metal, fusible plastics, paper, etc.)
techniques: felting, fusing, sewing
assignment: nonwoven


Friday March 12: NO CLASS

Wednesday March 17: Wearable Computing
(joint class with Communicating with Mobile Technology)

assignment due: nonwoven
materials: Arduino, Android
techniques: networking
assignment: networked wearable


Friday March 19: Guest Lecture, Tricia Wilson Nguyen

Wednesday March 24: NO CLASS SPRING BREAK
Friday March 26: NO CLASS SPRING BREAK

Wednesday March 31: Wearable Computing cont.

materials: Arduino, Android
techniques: networking
assignment: networked wearable
assignment: final project proposal


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Friday April 2: Guest Lecture, Despina Papadopoulos, Studio 5050, NYU

Tuesday April 6, 7pm-10pm, special class session w/ Communicating with Mobile Technology

assignment due: networked wearable


Wednesday April 7: Embroidery and Printing

materials: threads, stabilizers, inks and paints (thermo chromic, photochromic, conductive, etc.)
techniques: embroidery design, embroidering circuitry, algorithmic design, digital printing
machines: embroidery machine, printers
assignment: final project proposal


Friday April 9: Guest Lecture, Rehmi Post and Kit Waal, MIT

Wednesday April 14: Final Project Proposals

assignment due: final project proposal


Friday April 16: Guest Lecture, Becky Stern, MAKE and CRAFT

Wednesday April 21: Knitting and Weaving

materials: yarns (cotton, wool, etc., conductive, resistive), knitting software
techniques: algorithmic knit and weave design, knitting and weaving software, knitting sensors
machines: knitting machines (circular and flat), jacquard looms, hand looms
assignment: knit, woven, embroidery, or print


Friday April 23: Guest Lecture, Anne Whiston Spirn, MIT

Wednesday April 28: RISD field trip

Friday April 30: Knit, Woven, Embroidery Presentations

assignment due: knit, woven, embroidery, or print


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Wednesday May 5: Pattern Design + Guest Lecture, Sheila Kennedy, MIT

Friday May 7: RISD visit

Wednesday May 12: Final Project Presentations

GRADING

Weekly assignments: 60%
Final project: 30%
Class participation: 10%

RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOK

Kadolph, S. (2007), Textiles (10th Edition), Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ