Playing with electronic textiles

From www.kobakant.at 3 months ago in Blogs

Freitag + Samstag 14+15.4.2023, 9:00-17:00 at the Art and Work Education Conferences Tyrol “material matters” This two-day workshop provides an in-depth introduction to the materials as well as design and didactic possibilities of electronic textiles. Participants will develop object-, body- and space-oriented projects involving textile sensors, circuits and sound, which...

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Rabbit Control on Bela

From www.kobakant.at 5 months ago in Blogs

Bela Mini Board (https://bela.io/) is a super nice tool to read textile sensors, and generate sound on board. Bela can run Pure Data, and this is becoming my favorite tool set. One problem of working with Bela is that it...

Rabbit Control Webserver on Bela

From www.kobakant.at 5 months ago in Blogs

Download Rabbit Control client from here http://client.rabbitcontrol.cc/client.zip Connect Bela to your computer with USB cable (this will mount the Bela on 192.168.7.2 on mac, the address maybe different on windows) Open Terminal window (yes, the computer hacker looking one!). Connect...

Tone of the Things

From www.kobakant.at 5 months ago in Blogs

This is a part of the winter semester course 2022/23 at the Weissensee Art Academy Berlin. The workshop takes place on the October 24/26 at the eLab, KHB Berlin. ARDUINO 101 “Arduino is an open source computer hardware and software...

Wireless Workshop

From www.kobakant.at 11 months ago in Blogs

TH 28.4.2022, 11-14:00 (3h) + FR 29.4.2022, 10-15:00 (4h) ((( This workshop is only open to S&&O students ))) This 2-day workshop aims to give an overview of a selection of wireless communication technologies good for sending sensor data between...

Sensitive Puppets

From www.kobakant.at 1 year ago in Blogs

„I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can’t say.“ – Nina Conti (born 25 August 1973) is a British actress, comedian, and ventriloquist. Dieser Kurs birgt Raum, Zeit und Material um...

Stitching Electronics | Woolly Noise

From www.kobakant.at 1 year ago in Blogs

SVITAVA transmedia art lab, Brno, Czech, March 26/27, 2022 Meet the Material In this workshop, we use two resistive materials as our main materials. Both of them contains 20% of stainless steel fibers which are conductive, and 80% of non...

Beautiful Circuits

From www.kobakant.at 1 year ago in Blogs

a very short KiCAD workshop 9+10.3.22, 10-15:00* (It is also possible to join only for the first day) Spiel und Objekt Ladenlokal Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch Zinnowitzer Str. 11 10115 Berlin This very short intro workshop to the free...

Handedness

From www.kobakant.at 1 year ago in Blogs

This is a 3 days hands-on workshop held on January 26-28 2022 at the Interface Culture, Art University Linz Austria as a part of a course Fashionable Technology. Schedule:Day110:00 – 11:00 meet the materials11:00 – 13:00 building textile sensors (digital/analog)13:00...

dangle data gloves

From www.kobakant.at 1 year ago in Blogs

photos >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/albums/72157713884362741 ideas for how to solve the sensing and connections to the sensors: knitting pattern for two gloves joined at the fingers: making-of:

Bend Sensor Glove

From www.kobakant.at 1 year ago in Blogs

This is a quick way to make bend sensor embedded gloves. In this example, I embedded 4 sensors on finger joints, on Thumb, Index finger, Middle finger, Ring finger. I skipped pinky as it is hard to move it alone…...