The slides from Tuesday’s lecture on Fiber are here and the slides on Yarn are here. There are links to suppliers of a range of different fibers and yarns on the HLT wiki. There is more information about measuring fibers and yarns here and here.
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I made a simple led circuit that lights of the petals of a flower. The “switch” is a safety pin on the back. The pin connects two pieces of conductive fabric and thus the LEDs light when the patch is pinned to something.

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This is the first prototype of a fabric-based flexible XY motion gantry which can be controlled by a computer. The design can be scaled to cover an entire wall, and might also be able to conform to certain curved surfaces. Bot-of-the-Cloth could be used to draw patterns on fabric, ink conductive traces, cut fabric with a knife, and more.

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I created the beginnings of an elegant evening wear cape that lights up when fastened/snapped together. Read the rest of this entry »

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Maria Stangel

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The shooting star is designed to be something like a lit up version of a wind chime. The idea is that the star would flicker and glow when the wind blows (or when an object brushes past it), somewhat like how the stars flicker in the night sky.
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The slides from Tuesday’s lecture on Conductive Textiles are here. A set of slides on LEDs and how to make them “sewable” is here. There are links to suppliers of many of the materials we discussed in class on the HLT wiki. There are additional useful links Read the rest of this entry »