The materials that were tested in the last two weeks are cotton, wool, hemp, linen, silk, denim, viscose, polyester, nylon, polyurethane/polyester mix and cotton/viscose mix. They were tested indoors at a room temperature of 20 degrees Celcius and outside at a temperature of 0 degrees Celcius. The set-up was changed a little bit to get the…
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During this first week of 2017 I built my set-up I proposed 2 weeks ago with use of Arduino. First it was important to understand the code, which I made use of different books and the Arduino Playground. The Playground provided me with a suitable capacitive sensor which I could then adapt. The books I…
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During the Christmas holiday we celebrated Sinterklaas with the family. Sinterklaas has been paying close attention to my graduation as I was gifted four new books on Smart Textiles and Textile Design. Kate Hartman is an artist, technologist, and educator whose work spans the fields of physical computing, wearable electronics, and conceptual art. The…
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Every Wednesday of November and some of December Samuel Verburg, a fellow DfI student, teaches people how to work with electronic equipment at Maakbaar, a makerspace in the city centre of Delft. I arranged a meeting with him to understand the first steps towards working with my Arduino Lilypad. I did program code before, but…
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To understand which insulator-conductor material combination creates a functional garment a material study is needed. In the conclusion of the literature report some materials are mentioned which will be used for further research. The test will have three parts and a user test. The first part is the research is based on combining pure insulators…
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