Day 04
Thursday 22/05
Location: Green Fabric, Brussels
Summary
- 08:30-09:30 Walk-in & Morning coffee at Green Fabric
- 09:30-11:00 Factory visit
- 11:00-12:00 Lecture on E-textiles & Wearables
- 12:00-13:00 Workshop on on E-textiles & Wearables
- 13:00-14:00 Lunch
- 14:00-16:00 Workshop on on E-textiles & Wearables
- 16:00-19:00 Focus Group
Activities
- Factory visit
More details will be provided soon
- E-textiles Introduction
The lecture introduces the participants to e-textile hands-on activities, by providing them an overview about novel materials, electronics and programming. The presentation will highlight several projects on the topic of tech & crafts and the following hands-on workshop will focus on merging local materials and traditional techniques with digital fabrication processes and DIY electronics.
- Hands-on: E-textiles Workshop
Supported by Fabricademy team and Lab staff, participants will learn how to design and craft their own soft circuits and sensors, experimenting with conductive fabrics, threads and electronics.
- Focus Groups
Researching and experimenting together. Participants will ideate & develop a project in a team along with experts and participants around the topics tackled in the program and during the week.
Materials
- Velostat
- Copper tape / fabric
- Servo motors
- Mini vibration motors
- Neopixels
- Karl grimm thread (or any solderable thread)
- Scrap fabric we can use for substrate
- Needle / regular thread
- Neodymium magnets
- Transistors
- Resistances kit
- Jumper wires
- Protoboard
- Arduino Gemma / Circuit Playground
- Arduino Uno
- ATtiny
- Eeontex pressure
- Eeontex conductive
- Batteries 2000mA 3.7V
- Shape memory wire
- Conductive fabrics
- Conductive thread
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Resistive fabrics
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Woden boards
- Acrylic boards
- Local natural fibers
- Textiles, threads,…
Tools/Software
- Soldering station
- Electronics equipment
- Arduino IDE
- Laser cutter C02 / 3D Printer / CNC milling machine
- Adobe Illustrator
- Rhinoceros & Grasshopper for Windows and Mac
- Fusion 360
Recommendations
Suggested to bring with you:
- Notebook and personal computer with Rhinoceros/Grasshopper and Fusion already installed
- Materials (leather, fabrics..) you want to try and that you are working with to experiment
Resources
- Focus Groups
Researching and experimenting together. Participants will ideate & develop a project in a team along with experts and participants around the topics tackled in the program and during the week. At the end of the week they will showcase their collaborative porojects.