Fabricademy Week 9: E-Textiles and Wearables 2
This weeks assignment was to continue developing our initial eTextiles projects started in Week 5 We were given two lectures by tutor Becky Stewart, who is a professor at Queen Mary University of London, an expert on electronics and integrating them into projects. Assignment 1: Create an interactive object; if you are already experienced with coding, focus […]
Open Sourcce Hardware : Circular cog to knitting hoop
Week 8: Open Source Hardware Assignment Circular cog to knitting hoop Being a knitter, I just had to follow one of the other ideas spoken about this week which was hacking the circular knitting machine. Here is my inspiration gallery and a bit of 1st had research. I like the idea of combining the knitting […]
Open Source Hardware : Big-Bad-Bobbins
Week 8: Open Source Hardware Assignment Lace-making scaled up : Big-Bad-Bobbins As an avid textile designa dn maker, when I first moved to Barcelona a sought out local schools teaching techniques. With the Escola Puntaires group, I began to learn the art of lacemaking and in the summer I visited the Museu L’Arboc. These are […]
Open Source Hardware : BigBatik with Kuka
Week 8: Open Source Hardware Assignment Group project: BigBatik with Kuka Small tests first Here is Mohammed helping Anastasia, our human arm, controlling the big batik tool before we tested it with the Kuka robot arm! Making our frames for Big Batik We decided we wanted some big frames for out big batiks. We came […]
Fabricademy Week 8: Open Source Hardware – from fibres to fabrics
This class was based upon the open source hardware field and we focused on its potential in the area of textile. Our instructors this week were Mar Canet & Varvara Guljajeva. We looked at how we could enhance out of date machines for making textiles and how we might take advantage of fabricating digitally. We […]
Fabricademy Week 7 : The Textile Scaffold – Structural Windings and Crystals
Structural Windings and Crystals Part 1 – Preparation & structure Part 2 – Crystallisation: Creating the Alum solution and growing the crystals on the structure Part 3 – Giant Crystals: Growing the crystals on the structure Part 1 – preparation and structure Looking at geometric windings, I thought it might be interesting to follow some traditional techniques. I decided […]
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