Interactivos?’09: Garage Science was an intensive project development workshop (January 28 through February 14, 2009) and a seminar that explored practices where art, science and technology meet. Participants were invited to turn the Medialab Prado, Madrid into a garage laboratory where low-cost, accessible materials were used to develop objects and installations that combine software, hardware [...]
Read Full Post...May 11, 2009
oM loves Hannah Perner-Wilson’s (Plusea) tutorials and projects involving wearable technology and textile electronics. Above is one of her tutorials to make a bend sensor from textile duct tape, three layers of Velostat, conductive thread and fabric. It uses an Arduino and Processing to graph the sensor data. And one of her work-in-progress projects, a [...]
Read Full Post...May 10, 2009
Medialab Prado initiatives are always great and we highly recommend that you attend as many as you can. This weekend they’ve started two very interesting materials/bio-related workshops: Rescued Circuits is a set of 3 mini-workshops dedicated to exploring new ways of reusing electronic materials. The series is organized by the Obsoletos project: Obsoletos is a project [...]
Read Full Post...May 9, 2009
There is a really interesting lab at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture. The Centre for Architecural structures and Technology, C.A.S.T. Not only is it an acronym but also the main part of their research, forming and casting of reinforced concrete using fabric forms.
Read Full Post...May 8, 2009
Researchers at Europe’s Atomic Energy Commission, in France, have shown that vibrations from raindrops can generate enough energy to operate certain low power wireless sensors. The findings could help improve networks of wireless sensors that measure conditions like temperature, pressure, or the presence of pollutants. These networks provide early warning systems for dangerous air [...]
Read Full Post...May 7, 2009
I’ve just found a great online lecture with Leah Buechley in conjunction with the Stanford University Human Computer Interaction Seminar (CS547). The lecture runs at just over an hour. Computational textile researchers weave, solder and sew electronics into cloth to build soft, flexible and wearable computers. Computational textiles or “e-textiles” is a young [...]
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May 12, 2009
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