Handcrafting Textile Sensors – Electronic textiles as a medium for understanding electrical circuits and valuing traditional craftsmanship.
The workshop will introduce participants to a range of conductive textile materials and demonstrate designs for various sensors and actuators from the How To Get What You Want website.
E. R. Post and M. Orth, „Smart fabric, or „wearable clothing“,“ Digest of Papers. First International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1997, pp. 167-168.
Georgia Tech Wearable Motherboard™: The Intelligent Garment for the 21st Century.
Rise of DIY electronics, maker-scene, educational resources
Workshop im Rahmen der Di(gi)alog BÖKWE Fachtagung 2019
Handcrafting Textile Sensors – Electronic textiles as a medium for understanding electrical circuits and valuing traditional craftsmanship.
The workshop will introduce participants to a range of conductive textile materials and demonstrate designs for various sensors and actuators from the How To Get What You Want website.
Introduction
Irene Posch
Hannah Perner-Wilson – Massage Me
HTGWYW – How To Get What You Want
ETextile Swatch Exchange
Electronic Textiles / eTextiles
History
E. R. Post and M. Orth, „Smart fabric, or „wearable clothing“,“ Digest of Papers. First International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1997, pp. 167-168.
Georgia Tech Wearable Motherboard™: The Intelligent Garment for the 21st Century.
Rise of DIY electronics, maker-scene, educational resources
Arduino, Lilypad, etc.
Lilypad by Leah Buechley
Research
FlexTiles – A Felxible, Stretchable, Pressure-Sensitive Input
BETAlight
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“Meet the Materials”
Conductive Materials:
Bekinox VS/12
100% stainless steel fibres
by Bekaert
Bekinox VN 14/2
Continuous stainless steel filament yarn
Nm 4.5, Tex 250
by Bekaert
Bekinox W12/18
Stainless steel fibers, blended with wool fibers 80% wool, 20% stainless steel by weight
by Bekaert
Shieldex 235/34 dtex HC
100% polyamide coated in silver
by Statex
Elitex 110/f34/2ply_PA/Ag
100% polyamide coated in silver
by Imbut
High Flex 3981
Kupfer 7X1 fach verseilt
by Karl Grimm
Enameled Copper “Magnet Wire”, Kupferlackdraht
copper, enamel
z.B. Conrad
Shieldex Kassel
corrosion proof copper-silver plated polyamide ripstop fabric
by Statex
Shieldex Technik-tex
silver plated polyamide stretch fabric
by Statex
Velostat/Linqstat
Polymerfolie (Polyolefine), die mit Carbon Black imprägniert ist, um sie elektrisch leitfähig zu machen
by 3M/Caplinq, z.B. expTech
Der piezoresistive Effekt
Der piezoresistive Effekt ist eine Änderung des elektrischen Widerstandes eines Materials bei mechanischer Belastung.
Textile Sensors and Actuators
What is a sensor?
Potentiometer:
What is an actuator?
Speaker:
E-Textile Tester
Download Workshop Folder – PDF
Discussion
E-Textiles as educational medium?