Month: March 2021Page 7 of 8

Assignment 8: Fabric Button and Pressure Sensors – Elise

I was able to use felt and conductive thread to complete the pressure sensor. I used a blanket stitch with embroidery floss around the edge to contain the…

Assignment 8 – Rebecca Kim

Using four flaps of cut-out muslin (two of them to conceal my stitching on inner layers), conductive thread, a sheet of velostat, the cpb_soft_sensing.py code, and rudimentary stitching,…

Assignment 7 – Kanvi

My first pneumatic-and-fabric artifact emotes a feeling of hope and perseverance. With each pump of air, at first the bag inflates a bit but the air travels up…

Class 8: Crafting Soft Sensors

Tues. Mar 1, 2021, 10:30AM to 12:20PM (Zoom) Today’s class is primarily devoted to hands-on learning. Warm-up Brief check-in. Any questions? Announcements Picking up sewing machines from A9…

Assignment 7: Elise

Apologies for massive photos, for some reason my “tiles” section is not available in this wordpress site and gallery doesn’t want to open up the image bigger. This…

Assignment 7: Rebecca JL

The first piece I created was centered about movement around something that is stagnant. I created an oval in the middle to see how the air fills around…

Assignment 7: Anishwar

This first pneumatic is meant to emphasize the feeling of tension and frustration. A folded piece of paper is taped to the pneumatic and clenches dramatically when the…

Assignment 7 – Elle

This assigment was, quite honestly extremely frustrating. I kept on having issues with the heat sealing, and then when something would finally work, a seam would split or…

Assignment 7: Rebecca Kim

This form resembles a grimace, and the emotion is slightly alleviated by the delicate blue lace. The movement is overpowering, however, and the jagged twitches of the pneumatic…

Assignment 7: Yael

I was interested in exploring various levels of explicitly human behavior. Of the three attempts I made, they slowly became more and more human with each iteration. I…