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Day 04

Thursday 22/05

Location: Green Fabric, Brussels

Summary

  • 08:00-08:30 Walk-in & Morning coffee at Green Fabric
  • 08:30 Bus to Ghent
  • 09:30-11:00 Factory visit - Centexbel Ghent
  • 12:30-13:00 Bus back to Green Fabric
  • 13:00-14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00-17:00 Lecture and Workshop on on E-textiles & Wearables
  • 17:00-19:00 Focus Group

Activities

  • Factory visit

Together with the participants, we will travel to Ghent to visit Centexbel, the renowned Belgian research center for textiles and plastics. This visit will offer an inside look at innovative textile testing, certification processes, and cutting-edge research in sustainable and smart textiles.

  • 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

  • Resistive fabrics

  • Woden boards

  • Acrylic boards
  • Local natural fibers
  • Textiles, threads,…

Tools/Software

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.