Lecturer: Anna Blumenkranz. BA Art and Multimedia, Department of Art Sciences and Art Education, LMU Munich.
18.00-18.30 As last reunion the seminar met at the FabLab. The first half hour we talked internal about the seminar. The Students and Anna Blumenkranz gave feedback to each other. 18.30-19.00 The seminar-members prepared the presentationroom for the guests. We have put many chairs into rows, set a table in the front of the room…
During our Christmas session we had a surprise guest appearance via Skype with London-based PhD student Emilie Giles. Emilie shared her research around e-textiles and tactile sensors for visually-impaired, told us about her work for an immersive theatre performance and gave us some inspiring insights into what social wearables can be.
On the 5th of December we were joined by Marta Kisand, who gave insights into thermochromic and electric qualities of fabrics and shared her e-textile projects with us. The students were also able to touch and test various e-textile samples. Marta also told about her MA studies in the e-textiles at Boras University in Sweden….
Our first hands-on activity in the course was to create a soft-circuit robot with glowing eyes. After a brief introduction into basics of electric circuits, the students have been equipped with a battery holder, LED, conductive thread and felt, and designed a e-textile creature of their choice.
During our second session the course participants were introduced to the basics of the wearable micro-controller Lilypad Arduino. Each one was set out to make a flat potentiometer out of velostat and conductive fabric and connect it to a Lilypad and a speaker. We then coded the Lilypad to translate the resistant range of the…
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BA Art and Multimedia, Department of Art Sciences and Art Edcation, LMU Munich
Lecturer: Anna Blumenkranz
Wearables & E-Textiles Seminar 2016 