Interactive e-textile Workshop with Arduino LilyPad
Adrian Freed, Research Director at CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technology) gave us a hint about open places for the second Interactive e-textile Workshop with Arduino Lilypad which has been added due to the huge demand the first workshop starting on July 25 generated and has been ’sold out’ within short time.
The second [...]
Wearable Electronic summer-camp for assistive clothing
To promote the early involvement of students into the multifunctional field of wearable electronic the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Department of Computing is hosting this summer an intelligent clothing workshop for children with an emphasis on assistive wearable technology.
Last year, the summer camp workshop focused on the sports theme to create ‘intelligent sportswear’ of their [...]
Wearable Electronic workshop: electro-clothing
Nadya Peek, creator of the Caché dress and researcher at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge is heading a series of workshops about wearable technology at Mediamatic.
Participants will be working on their own garments, to make it beep when you talk, or light up when somebody touches you.
Over four days workshop participants will be able [...]
e-Textile workshop – Fashion Hacking
Self proclaimed ‘Fashion Nerd’ Diana Eng will bring a bit of her Project Runway experience to NYC Resistor on May 10th which is hosting the workshop ‘Fashion Hacking‘.
Diana recently launched her book Fashion Geek which is full of fashion hacking tips and instructions. I guess some of the books’ material will be used by her [...]
Showtime for Smart Textiles
Twitter friend Lynne Bruning send out a tweet pointing to an opportunity for e-textiles artists, designer, enthusiasts to showcase their creations on the ‘Smart Textiles Salon‘ which takes place on Sept. 25, 2009 in Ghent, Belgium.
The ‘Smart Textiles Salon’ is running in parallel to the ‘80th Anniversary of the Department of Textiles at Ghent University‘ [...]
Workshop – Weaving Conductive Cloth
Most e-Textile projects as well as commercially available wearable electronic products use sewing as method to add electronic functions into fabrics.
Lynne Bruning, a pioneer in ‘electronic weaving’ shows another option how to electrify our future clothing by using weaving technologies to integrate (vs adding) electrically conductive infrastructure and electrical components during textile fabrication.
Weaving with electronic [...]
Wearable Electronic events in The Netherlands
Rotterdam based V2_ ‘Institute for the Unstable Media’, will host coming May highly interesting events around Wearable Electronic.
On May 16-17 Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson (aka KOBAKANT) will give a two-day workshop on DIY wearable technology. The workshop will put the emphasis on DIY techniques and performing arts and is aiming to provide participants with [...]
Sew your own wearable musical interface
The event ‘diy* — Art and Technology Festival‘ read: ‘do it together, the culture of collaborative art-making’ will host a workshop on Electronic Textiles to develop wearable musical interfaces.
Hannah Perner Wilson and Mika Satomi will introduce workshop participants into the magic of e-textiles and the DIY concept of wearable technology.
Starting point for the workshop is to take apart [...]
