I am searching some kinds of input for my dye sensitiv skin. ..with a blow dryer. It is a kind of visualisation air conditioning- direction, temperature and power are located.
You can show some hiding textures or informations. I printed a plain thermochromic mixed green and the structures with standard ink- here the result.
I also arranged the carbon fibres under the textil- some dynamic forms…
The macro shoot shows the material specific way of displaying something.
Some structures create on the textile when you press it!
The next sample is covered with Polyurethan to restist water;
Visualisizing water drops again;
I interact with water, but no frequencies applied.
Create your own pattern with two or three cups of hot water;
The thermochromic ink mixed with binder. I ordered the 400g ink from CTI London for studies. (60 pounds)
It fades from black to colorless at 30-35 ° (body temperature)
I mixed the thermochromic ink with some standard pigments to faded from color grey in pure dye.
With the screen I made some test cells.
With the power of a 9V Batterie the ink faded very fast (faster as I touch with my fingers)
I made some stripes to test the effect of colors
I want to control the dye with human interaction and computational input via arduino and carbon fibres in a material nearest way;
In my semester I wanted to screenprinting some textiles.
Here are some pictures about my working process in manufacture of textile design with different kind of pigments
after each print I cleaned up my screen
As sample I used my modelling works of 3d works- the hands from ergonomic studies.
Virtual structures print onto textiles. The digital wireframes becomes a bit more real;
wireframes printed white on dark textile become more digital
Printing layers green pigment and white foam pigment.
printed filigree structures on canvas
I made this textile to preserve my notebook keyboard.
Start by drawing out your circuit on the fabric. Decide where all you components will go including your battery or your switches and draw all of these connections out. You can choose to do a double sided circuit (ideal for grids or leds or input devices, or when your lines will come very close to each other) or a single sided circuit (easier to work with).
Conductive thread is often very fray so make sure to use it as bobbin thread combined with regular (100% cotton is best) thread as top bobbin. Flip the fabric upside down when doing double sided circuits.
firstly I practice with some wire; it is difficult and risky cause the wire can be rippen or broken!
B–Check conductivity and look for any shorts you could fix
Depending on how you designed your circuit you will want to check that no 2 parts of the threads touch each other if they shouldn’t. Tape up your extra lengths of threads when you test because it usually comes in the way and makes it difficult to find real short circuits. Once everything is good, try to stitch a layer of non-conductive fabric on top of the circuit to isolate it. If you can, stitch it throughout all of the circuit so that no bad contact can ever occur (seal it so you can bend it, fold it, flip it… with no risks of 2 conductive threads ever touching).
C–Embedded circuit components
Finally, you embed all your components into the circuit. Ideally you can just stitch your components in at the right place. If you’ve created a single side circuit try not to undo this when you hand stitch your left-over conductive thread all the way into / next to your components. Use an XXX stitch instead. You can solidify a connection by using NON-conductive thread around it to insure everything is in place and solid.
D–Connect to your circuit (optional)
If you have to make a connection to a circuit board or a larger component. Try these tricks –link to Grace’s description + mine + leah Buechley Soft connections to microcontroller
5. Estimated Price
Conducive thread starts at around 10$.
A part for the multimeter, the rest can cost you less than 10$.
6. Estimated Time
I Cannot get anything done and debugged in less than 2 / 3 days but if you keep it real simple, it could take just a few hours.
I build my first physical display with some leds and fiber-glass;
The idea was to set nine LEDs on the arduino to control my mouse cursor. When I hit a virtual layer the equal light sets HIGH;
The LED put in the glas fibre and connect with carbon fibres.
Now I find a more material specific way to show materials answer of interactional doing. Glow in the dark pigment allows to show some secret message on material like typographie on a wall or the way to an emergency exit.
As I scrabbled in a children´s book with german title “Bist Du es auch leid Schafe zu zählen?” (”Are you bored about counting sheeps before sleeping?”) I am thinking about an exploration of my pillow to find structures more and more and more and more and more and more and more and..z z zz zzzhhh..
This project examines the creation of traces in interactional way and the use of water as a means to create a novl and beautiful interaction with radio.
The material let entertain to interact with it.
The surface on the top of the board is equipped with sensors. These allows information, played by a radio, to be accessed by touching the grain with water, in acoustic form. Thus, the wood presents viewers with an acoustic feedback ordered by its broadcast stations.
The film is a projection of one of my ideas into a scenario.
video sketch
Here I take a light resisitor to change the transparencies of the circles in the flash-file.To become the digital traces real I take a Serial Connection between Computer and sensors/actuators- my arduino;arduino- official links with practice and projects;
