Handcrafting Textile Sensors

This hands-on workshop introduces a range of low-cost materials and tools for building textile sensors. Participants will learn techniques for handcrafting textile sensors and circuitry that include sewing, knitting, crochet and embroidery.
The goal of the workshop is to familiarize participants with available electronic textile materials and introduce them to a variety of sensor and circuitry construction techniques.

Participants will also learn how to read the values of their sensors, using multimeters as well as Arduinos and Processing.

Hannah Perner-Wilson

Currently a graduate student in the High-Low Tech research group lead by Leah Buechley at the MIT Media Lab. My work explores material properties for their use in creating handmade electronics and human-computer interfaces, with a focus on the documentation and development of available and affordable technology that allows more of us to DIY, modify and fix the technology that surrounds us. Since 2006 I have collaborated with Mika Satomi, forming the collective KOBAKANT. In 2009, as research fellows at the Distance Lab in Scotland, KOBAKANT published an online database for their DIY wearable technology titled HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT. I hold a Bachelor degree in Industrial Design from the Art University of Linz, Austria.