IN PROGRESS
Motion-Capture Pyjamas for Stuffed Animals
2010
Textile sensor and visual motion-capture technology for stuffed animals.
PUBLICATIONS
Make Magazine
Fabric sensor kits featured in the Makers Market section of the 23ed edition of Make Magazine.
IN PROGRESS
The Least Likely Scenario
2010
A set of scales that don’t react the way you’d expect to the differences in weight of the objects placed upon them. Yet their behavior is still dictated by the rules of physics and the materials they are made of.
IN PROGRESS
Mouse in a Hole
2010
Put your finger in the hole and move it around to control your mouse cursor. Reach for the button at the bottom of the hole to left click. Smile.
WORKSHOPS
Handcrafting Textile Mice
2010
This workshop will explore the use of low-cost materials and tools to build textile-based interfaces that replace the current hard-shell computer mice or laptop touchpads that you use to navigate your screen.
PROJECTS
Eight Steps
2010
Eight Steps depicts the making-of a wearable instrument. Based on a series of workshops that focus on unveiling the black box of technology in order to demonstrate how everyday electronic objects can be opened up and modified to better suit our personal needs and desires.
DIY
Painting Paper Circuits
2010
Painting circuits on paper with conductive paint. This technique is documented in detail on the High-Low Tech Wiki.
PROJECTS
Push Button
2010
“You press the button, we do the rest”
This slogan, used to sell Kodak cameras is defining of the anticipation that, if we press a button, something will happen.
WORKSHOPS
Knitting, hacking, hanging, sound
2010
A day-long workshop during which participants can come and go, contributing to knitting textile composite objects, furniture and installations.
IN PROGRESS
Tilt Sensing Quilt
2009
Exploring ways to sense inclination through a variety of crafting and needlework techniques, using affordable and available materials such as conductive threads, yarns, fabrics, and paints.
PUBLICATIONS
Tilt and Time Sensing Bracelets
Tilt and Time Sensing Bracelets article presented at the Student Interaction Design and Research Conference 2010 (SIDeR) in UMEA, Sweden.
PUBLICATIONS
Making Textile Sensors from Scratch
Perner-Wilson, H. and Buechley, L. 2010. Making textile sensors from scratch. In Proceedings of the Fourth international Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied interaction (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, January 24 - 27, 2010). TEI ‘10. ACM, New York, NY, 349-352.
PROJECTS
Icebreakers
14-24 January 2010
Realized as part of the ten day SCU+MIT workshop in Taipei, Taiwan. A collaboration between Shih Chien University and MIT Architecture and Media Lab departments
CALENDAR
2010
August 16,17
Handcrafting Textile Mice workshop at the Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) conference in Arhus, Denmark
May 2
Electronic Quilting workshop during the Cambridge Science Festival in Cambridge, MA
May 1
Paintable Electronics workshop during the Cambridge Science Festival in Cambridge, MA
March 24-26
Presentation of the Tilt and Time Sensing Bracelets and Handcrafting a Textile Sensor workshop at the Student [...]
PROJECTS
Hanging Conversations
Two hanging scales that converse about the weight of the objects they hold. The scales are made from knit wool tubes that have a resistive yarn included in part of their structure, which allows them to sense weight through stretch. At the bottom end of the tubes the knitting is composited into a semi-rigid container, [...]
