Course Guide

This collaborative course brings automation and textiles together to explore their creative potential. Students develop group projects culminating in a public installation. Within this process the top-level objective is a reflection on the nature and process of interdisciplinary collaboration.

Spring 2024 News

For Spring 2024, the course will be held in the IDeATe Physical Computing Lab, Hunt A10, on the library lower level.

The curriculum for this course has been substantially revised for Spring 2024. We will focus on experimental approaches to fabric structures which respond to actuation. The course will include elementary textile technique but focus on fabric as a raw kinetic material rather than textile craft.

Contents

• Daily Agenda Logbook
• Syllabus: Kinetic Fabrics
• Assignments
• Videos of Related Work
• Bibliography (S24)
• Course Resources
• Hardware
• Sample Code
• Reference Resources

• File Archives

  • zip files for downloading technical resources

  • Python sources (browsable)

  • Arduino sources (browsable)

  • SolidWorks CAD files for reference machine designs

  • CircuitPython sources (browsable)

Course Role and History

This course is part of the Integrative Design, Arts, and Technology (IDeATe) program at Carnegie Mellon University. It is a “collaborative” course elective for the IDeATe Soft Technologies and Physical Computing programs. This course makes use of the IDeATe fabrication and lab facilities in the lower level of Hunt Library. The permanent link for the course is https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/16-376.

This course was previously offered in Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, and Spring 2019.

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