12. Skin Electronics¶

Research¶

This week’s assignment began with reflecting on how it would differ from the wearable week. I looked back at my previous experience, where my focus was mainly on creating wearable pieces without fully understanding the broader possibilities within the field. At that time, I didn’t even know that skin electronics were being used, which made this new exploration feel both surprising and exciting. As I started this assignment, I became more aware of how technology can interact directly with the body, opening up new creative directions. This realization sparked my curiosity and motivated me to experiment further, pushing beyond what I had previously done and embracing the opportunity to explore unfamiliar tools, materials, and concepts.

References & Inspiration¶

koba kant KOBA Electronic Textile Tailor Shop is a shop that offers bespoke wearable technology. Everything we make is made-to-order. The shop is an artistic experiment exploring what we, as regular people wish technology to be.
sheath bend sensor textile bend sensor constructed by sewing two parallel sheath
instructables Finger Bend is a sensor created to find a way of making finger bends inside of a glove, control light and sound.

Tools¶

× LED

× Breadboard

× Computer with arduino and the library for the microcontroller* you are using if it is not yet installed

× USB cable

× Lighter or heat gun

Materials¶

× 2nd Non-Conductive Fabric

× Copper or Other Low Resistance Conductive Thread

× non-conductive thread

× 2 Male Pins

Process and workflow¶

My sketches are ...

This schematic ¹ was obtained by..

This tutorial ² was created using..

footnote fabrication files

Fabrication files are a necessary element for evaluation. You can add the fabrication files at the bottom of the page and simply link them as a footnote. This was your work stays organised and files will be all together at the bottom of the page. Footnotes are created using [ ^ 1 ] (without spaces, and referenced as you see at the last chapter of this page) You can reference the fabrication files to multiple places on your page as you see for footnote nr. 2 also present in the Gallery.

Code Example¶

Use the three backticks to separate code.

// the setup function runs once when you press reset or power the board
void setup() {
  // initialize digital pin LED_BUILTIN as an output.
  pinMode(LED_BUILTIN, OUTPUT);
}

// the loop function runs over and over again forever
void loop() {
  digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, HIGH);   // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
  delay(1000);                       // wait for a second
  digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, LOW);    // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW
  delay(1000);                       // wait for a second
}

12. Skin Electronics¶

Research¶

References & Inspiration¶

Tools¶

Materials¶

Process and workflow¶

Code Example¶

Results¶

Video¶

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Fabrication files¶