5. E-textiles¶
Research¶
I started to think of the most recent projects where I made E-textiles to see what I need to know from this week and where it can lead me.
This summer, I went to a TransHack Feminist Festival in Catalunya in Spain. There I made some experimental discoveries and I also gave a workshop based on my own personal research and creative work.
The workshop I did was related to my grand father story of resistance and my connection to it with the Enigma machine, the beggining of computering and AI and looms as being some of the first computers.
We wove different symbols representing an alphabet and connected them to a code I made on processing to connect visuals and sounds on Ableton.
I would like to continue this experimentation in order to make small weavings connectable on a website where I would store all the people's symbols of resistance.
These are pictures of the last performance I did, in Geneva, in Septemnber 2022, at the Espace Le Grain, with the Association No Walls.
This is the workshop I was giving at the Transhack Feminist festival, in july 2022.
These are experiments we were making at the festival, where I was trying to control the effects of the experimental sounds generated live with Claire Wiliams. I connected my Midi controller to cactus fruits I found in the area and aloe vera leaves.
I also made a jacket with a frequency reader sewn on it in order to get the radio and the frequencies, worn and tried in Bugarach, France.
- Claire Williams
I started thinking of my ideas for the final project and how I could include E-textile in it.
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Conductive embroidery
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Costume : costumes that react : material with water/ metal: on my body directly, performance
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Arduino : Use Arduino to connect my midi-controller Playtronica and use Arduino’s memory to not have to use a computer.
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ex: take the 0 & 1 modules and make them hide other 0 and 1 with circuit or code.
References & Inspiration¶
Liza Stark - Liza Stark In her tuto Liza Stark showed us notions about electric circuits.
- Kobakant is the reference website for E-textiles.
Data sheet
Projects :
Connextyle - Anke loh Touch and staying in touch
- Irene Posch and Ebru kurbak embroyedered conductive thread They made a conductive pattern on textile, and an embroidered computer. Irene Posch
Tools¶
It is better to source materials through the University cause it can be seen as for making bomb. Source well.
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Get scisors etc just for conductive materials.
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Multimeter
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Resistance (different ones)
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Pinces
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Conductive threads (thin)
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Normal thread
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Needle
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Safety pins
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Conductive fabric
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Leds
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Velostat
Process and workflow¶
What is a circuit?
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Electricity travels from + to –.
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Voltage, circuit and resistance. Voltage :every battery has a voltage.
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The Multimetre calculates the resistance, the voltage, the conductivity.
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The resistance changes how much current flows through a circuit. What's the good conductive material?
Conductive threads :
Switches :
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Digital switch
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Analog switch
Embroidery machine with conductive thread, a circuit with a led and a switch.
Arduino
In this week I learnt from my mistakes. When something was not working, I had to do it again and again to understand why it was the case. This way, I managed to figure out how things worked more easily. For example, cause I had to cut some threads that were on the way, or making a court circuit.
Some things inspires me for my project and I would like to weave new fabrics that I would connect to the Arduino.