For the final project, I decided to make a water bottle cozy that reminds you to drink. I initially got the idea because I often get dehydrated especially when working at a desk all day. I have a water bottle in front of me, but just don’t think about it. I wanted something to actively [...]
by Heidi and Nicole Ladies, have you ever left the house without your cell phone? Locked yourself out without your keys? Paused mid step to hurriedly search your bag for items you thought you may have forgotten? Deja Vu is here to help. The newly developed intelligent bag boasts an RFID system that helps you [...]
The repeated elements of textile designs not only create a sense of rythm, but they can be quite mesmerizing. While they are capable of creating a sense of movement, in reality they are of often static. As a textile designer, I have always been interested in the idea of a textile that is capable of [...]
How do you talk to a jacket? There was a time when if you did, people would look at you a little bit funny. These days, with a little thing called an Android phone, a powerful little circuitboard called Lilypad Arduino, and an amazing toolkit called Amarino developed by Bonifaz Kaufmann, you can talk to [...]
Last semester, I became very interested in Archigram. As a final project for one of my classes, I modeled and rendered an animation of Walking City. In my final project proposal for this class, I proposed making a dress that featured Walking City and included charlie plexing circuitry for a scatter/sparkly lighting effect. After speaking [...]
Inspired by an earlier project on the PCB Puzzle, I wanted to use the same concept to develop a game for an online site that teaches 5th graders about the civil war. The embroidery process and writing code in Processing was challenging. The various pieces had to fit properly. When pieces were sewn separately, the [...]
Due: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 See student final projects here Your final project assignment has 3 pieces: the project itself, a short presentation about the project, and a web page documenting the project. Information about presentations and documentation is below.
Due: Tuesday, May 3, 2011 See student designs here Make a piece of flexible nonwoven fabric with some noteworthy characteristic. (An unusual blend of materials, interesting structural characteristics, embedded circuitry, special electrical properties, …?) Create a post that documents your project and add it to the Nonwoven category. Your page should include a photo of [...]
Due: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 See student designs here For this assignment you will create a computationally generated textile pattern. You’ll write a program that generates a pattern and use the embroidery machine, laser cutter, knitting machine (or another CNC device, ie: a CNC loom or a 3D printer) to automatically produce the pattern.
Due: Tuesday, April 5, 2011 See student proposals here. For your final project, you’ll explore a specific set of materials, techniques, or applications in depth. You are very welcome (in fact encouraged) to work in groups. The project could take many different forms, including but not limited to:
Due: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 See student sensors here For this assignment you will create a soft, flexible, textile-based sensor and a simple screen-based interface that displays information from the sensor.
Due: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 See student knits here For this assignment you will create two knit pieces, one by following an existing pattern and one by developing your own pattern. This assignment will focus on different knit structures. A later assignment will focus on color and pattern.